An Indian-origin narcotics officer in Singapore was on Friday sentenced to five years in jail for being under the influence of alcohol and assaulting a suspected drug offender to extort a confession, the media reported.
SINGAPORE, March 18 A Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officer was found guilty today of kicking, slapping and punching a drug suspect in a toilet at Woodlands Checkpoint to extract a confession. Vengedesh Raj Nainar Nagarajan, 35, assaulted Sivabalan Janniappan on Jan 2 in 2017 after the latter.