Apex court acquits two men of cannabis trafficking; one had been given death penalty

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SINGAPORE - Two men who were initially convicted of drug trafficking - one of whom was sentenced to the death - were acquitted by the Court of Appeal on Friday .

The three-judge court, led by Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon, allowed the appeal of Raj Kumar Aiyachami, 40, against his conviction and mandatory death sentence for drug trafficking.

Central Narcotics Bureau officers had observed Ramadass delivering the bag to Raj Kumar on Sept 21, 2015. He said he had ordered a tobacco laced with a synthetic chemical that mimicked the narcotic effects of cannabis, known as Butterfly, and had gone to pick it up but received a bag of cannabis instead.

He said that he had been told that four bags of chemically-sprayed tobacco had been placed in the lorry he was driving.

 

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