SINGAPORE – Two men appeared in the district court on April 28 after they allegedly used pieces of clothing to tie up a woman’s limbs in a hotel room and robbed her last weekend.
Indian nationals Arokkiyasami Daison, 22 and Rajendran Mayilarasan, 28, were each handed a robbery charge, and they were also ordered to be remanded at Central Police Division.
The two men were in a room at the Amrise Hotel Kitchener in Jalan Besar shortly before 7pm on April 26 when they allegedly tied the 38-year-old woman’s hands and legs.
They are also accused of slapping her face before making off with items including her passport, bank cards and $2,000 in cash.
The police said in an earlier statement that officers were alerted to the case at around 9pm on April 26.
With the help of police cameras and CCTV footage, officers from the Central Police Division managed to establish the men’s identities and arrested the pair within four hours after the report was made.
All of the woman’s belongings were recovered, said a police spokesperson.
The men’s cases will be mentioned again in court on May 5.
For committing robbery with hurt, an offender can be jailed for between five and 20 years, and receive at least 12 strokes of the cane.
- Shaffiq Alkhatib is The Straits Times’ court correspondent, covering mainly criminal cases heard at the State Courts.
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