Murder of Jaranjeet Singh

On the early morning of 10 May 1998, at a coffee shop in Geylang, 40-year-old prison warden Jaranjeet Singh, a Sikh Singaporean, was attacked by two men, one of whom was earlier involved in a quarrel with a prostitute he engaged, for allegedly staring at them. During the attack, Jaranjeet was stabbed on the throat by one of the men using a broken beer bottle, causing Jaranjeet to bleed to death since the broken bottle had cut through a major blood vessel at his neck. Within the same month of his murder, the two attackers, Saminathan Subramaniam and S. Nagarajan Kuppusamy, both 38 years old, were arrested and charged with murder.

Eventually, one of the killers, Saminathan, who had a long criminal record since his youth, was sentenced to six strokes of the cane and nine months' imprisonment for causing hurt with a dangerous weapon while Nagarajan, the other killer identified to be the one who fatally slashed Jaranjeet, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death in October 1998, and after he lost his appeal, Nagarajan was put to death by hanging for the crime on 23 July 1999.