THE body of Nagaenthran Dharmalingam will be buried at the Hindu cemetery in Buntong tomorrow.

He was executed at Changi Prison in Singapore yesterday morning.

His sister, 36-year-old Sarmila, said his remains will be buried between 2pm and 4pm tomorrow after a prayer session at their house.

“We accept his death with a heavy heart. Thank you to everyone who prayed for him in Singapore and Malaysia as well as on social media until now,” she said when met by reporters at her home in Tanjung Rambutan last night.

Nagaenthran’s family members and friends had gathered at his home to mourn his death. Navin Kumar, 22, who was present at the Changi Prison yesterday morning, is expected to return with the remains of his brother Nagaenthran at midnight today.

Nagaenthran’s body was brought back from Singapore to Ipoh by van.

Also seen waiting at their home here is his mother, Panchalai Supermaniam, 60, who looked sad and forlorn. She declined to be interviewed by reporters about Nagaenthran, 34, the second child of four siblings.

On Tuesday, the Singapore Court of Appeal dismissed a last-ditch legal challenge filed by Nagaenthran’s mother to set aside her son’s conviction and death sentence. 

Hailing from Perak, Nagaenthran was sentenced to death in 2010 for trafficking 42.72g of heroin in 2009 into Singapore.  

On November 7 last year, it was reported that Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob had written to his Singapore counterpart Lee Hsien Loong seeking leniency in this case.

Meanwhile, on December 3, Singapore President Halimah Yacob said he had been accorded full due process under the law.

Nagaenthran’s lawyers claim he is intellectually disabled. 

He was supposed to be hanged on November 10 last year, but was given respite on November 9 after the court was told he had tested positive for Covid-19 when he appeared for a last-ditch attempt to overturn his death sentence. – Bernama, April 28, 2022.