Singapore: An Indian national on Friday was sentenced to five years jail and 12 strokes of the cane for swinging a plank during a riot involving about 60 people outside a Gurudwara in Singapore. Yadwinder Singh, 26, was the leader of one of the two groups of people who started fighting outside Silat Road Sikh Temple in Bukit Merah area in April, 2017, Channel News Asia reported. The two groups of men wielded wooden poles, planks and belts, spilling onto the road and disrupting traffic, the court heard.
The court did not specify the reasons behind the fight. Footage from a public bus, played in court on Friday, showed Yadwinder brandishing a long wooden plank at members of the opposing group, the court heard. The court heard that Yadwinder and his group gathered at the bus stop outside the Gurudwara after prayers that morning.
Some of them had armed themselves with wooden planks. They chased after the men from the opposing group, who were walking along Kampong Bahru Road after leaving the Gurudwara, shouting vulgarities at them before attacking them, the daily said.
