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FOUND GUILTY: Four snatched couple for RM5,000 ransom
Four security personnel were sentenced to death after being found guilty by the High Court here yesterday of kidnapping a couple for a RM5,000 ransom more than two years ago.
P. Thinagaran, 27, S.S. Arumugam, 24, C. Krishnakumar, 24, and V.K. Santirasagaran, 32, committed the offence with another accomplice still at large, at Jalan Merak, Puchong City Centre, Selangor about 4.30am on March 4, 2011.
Judge Nor Azian Shaari in her judgment said their actions had not only caused anxiety and anguish to the married couple's family members, it had forced terror in the victims and scarred them for life.
She also considered the violence in the case, in which the woman was raped by the accomplice still at large, who also bashed her husband while the four recorded the incident.
According to the facts of the case, the couple were at the scene to meet a man named Shan when they were dragged and pushed into a car driven by Arumugam.
The victims were brought to Kampung Tan Sri Manikavasagam, Pulau Carey, where they were confined in a vacant house that was linked to a modified storage container.
They were released the same day at 10pm after the woman's mother deposited RM1,500 in two transactions into the Maybank account of a 43-year-old man. Bernama
FOUND GUILTY: Four snatched couple for RM5,000 ransom
Four security personnel were sentenced to death after being found guilty by the High Court here yesterday of kidnapping a couple for a RM5,000 ransom more than two years ago.
P. Thinagaran, 27, S.S. Arumugam, 24, C. Krishnakumar, 24, and V.K. Santirasagaran, 32, committed the offence with another accomplice still at large, at Jalan Merak, Puchong City Centre, Selangor about 4.30am on March 4, 2011.
Judge Nor Azian Shaari in her judgment said their actions had not only caused anxiety and anguish to the married couple's family members, it had forced terror in the victims and scarred them for life.
She also considered the violence in the case, in which the woman was raped by the accomplice still at large, who also bashed her husband while the four recorded the incident.
According to the facts of the case, the couple were at the scene to meet a man named Shan when they were dragged and pushed into a car driven by Arumugam.
The victims were brought to Kampung Tan Sri Manikavasagam, Pulau Carey, where they were confined in a vacant house that was linked to a modified storage container.
They were released the same day at 10pm after the woman's mother deposited RM1,500 in two transactions into the Maybank account of a 43-year-old man. Bernama
