Three men spared the gallows, jailed 15 years for possessing methamphetamine

PUTRAJAYA: Three men, including two foreign nationals, escaped the gallows after the Court of Appeal reduced their charge of trafficking in 9kg of methamphetamine to possession of the drugs.

K. Dinakaran, 43; Bangladeshi Asraful Alam, 28; and an Indian national Arivazhagan Murugesan, 50; were instead sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment and 10 strokes of the cane each.