Indian national jailed in Singapore for biting off man’s finger during scuffle
Singapore: A drunk Indian national in Singapore was jailed for 10 months on Friday for biting off the front portion of a fellow Indian’s index finger during a scuffle in April this year, a media report said.Thangarasu Rengasamy, a 40-year-old excavator operator, pleaded guilty to voluntarily causing grievous hurt to Nagooran Balasubramanian, 50, an electrical engineering technician.The two Indian nationals were living at separate foreign worker dormitories in Kaki Bukit, an industrial area in Bedok, at the time of the offence, The Straits Times reported, adding that the severed part of Nagooran’s finger could not be found.The court heard that just before the attack, Nagooran and another construction worker Ramamoorthy Anantharaj, were drinking alcohol at around 10 p.m. on April 22 when an intoxicated Thangarasu, who was seated some five meters away from the pair, started shouting.When Ramamoorthy asked Thangarasu to keep his volume down, the latter marched towards him with his right hand raised.When Ramamoorthy responded by slapping Thangarasu, a scuffle broke out between the pair and Nagooran tried to separate them.“In the midst of the struggle, (Nagooran’s) left index finger inadvertently entered the accused’s mouth. The accused… bit down onto the victim’s finger forcefully and did not let go,” Deputy Public Prosecutor Cai Chenghan was cited as saying in The Straits Times.