Indian gets Jail in Singapore riots case

A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced an Indian construction worker to 30 months in jail and three strokes of the cane for his role in a rare riot in the city-state. Ramalingam Sakthivel, 33, had pleaded guilty to taking part in a street rampage last December that left 39 people injured including policemen and 25 vehicles destroyed. In the incident, an estimated 400 migrant labourers from South Asia enjoying a Sunday off work erupted in anger after an Indian worker was crushed to death under a bus in Singapore's congested Little India district. It was one of Singapore's worst outbreaks of violence since the 1960s, and brought into sharp focus the way the wealthy city-state manages its nearly one million low-paid foreign workers, according to AFP.