Indian gets 31 months jail for Singapore riots

September 23, 2014 04:59 pm | Updated May 23, 2016 04:58 pm IST - Singapore

A 24-year-old Indian was on Tuesday sentenced to 31 months in jail and three strokes of cane for rioting and abetting others during the Little India riots, becoming the 18th Indian to be jailed for his involvement in the country’s worst street violence in 40 years.

Prabakaran Chinnappa, a construction worker, was sentenced to 31 months in jail and three strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to rioting, and abetting others to set fire to an ambulance, The Straits Times reported.

Chinnappa was convicted for hitting an empty police car repeatedly with a stick and helping flip the vehicle onto its side, the report said.

He also threw pieces of paper into the car after it had been set on fire to feed the flames, and later threw a glass bottle at police, it reported.

He was also charged for repeatedly hitting an empty ambulance with a stick and threw a beer carton into it.

Fifty-eight police and defence officers were injured and 23 emergency vehicles damaged in the riot on the night of December 8, 2013, in Little India.

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