SINGAPORE — A youth involved in an armed robbery of a moneylender shop in Jurong East two years ago was on Monday (May 23) sentenced to over five years' jail and caning over the incident and for a string of other offences.
Karrtik Stalniraj, a 23-year-old Singaporean, pleaded guilty to five charges including one for his role in the armed robbery. Other charges include voluntarily causing hurt with a dangerous weapon, breaching Covid-19 social gathering restrictions, using criminal force against a public servant on duty and theft.
Five other charges were taken into consideration during sentencing.
He is the third man to be dealt with over the Jurong East armed robbery.
ARMED ROBBERY AT OT CREDIT
Court documents stated Karrtik had suggested to two other youths — Kotta Kumar Jeswanth, 20, and Tusheintar Segaran, 22 — to target OT Credit because it had only two female shop assistants working there.
The three men struck at around 4pm on Nov 19, 2020.
Kotta entered the premises and grabbed the shop assistant by her hair. Brandishing a karambit knife in one hand, he demanded that she throw cash into a grey haversack he was wearing in front of his body.
Kotta instructed the shop assistant, Ms Candy Yang Siqi, not to shout for help.
Karrtik went about searching the shop for more money. Tusheintar stayed at the entrance of the premises as a lookout.
Kotta then locked Ms Yang in a back office and the trio fled on foot with S$48,000. Karrtik later received S$14,500 from the loot while Tusheintar received S$14,000.
Tushientar was sentenced to two years’ jail and six strokes of the cane in February this year.
Kotta pleaded guilty in January last year and was ordered to undergo reformative training as he was under 21 years of age during the time of the offence.
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