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Dope-and-steal woman jailed 6 months
By Elena Chong

A WOMAN who stole from her victims after doping them with pills was jailed for six months on Friday.
Devi Marie Rattan Singh nee Dumont, 43, who faced a total of 10 charges, admitted to stealing cash and valuables from three men between 2004 and this year.
Seven other charges including soliciting for prostitution were taken into consideration.
A district court heard that she met Mr Vengadasalam Muthusamy Sundaram Srinivasan, 57, along Rochor Road on March 16 and invited him to a hotel but he suggested going to a club.
They ended up at Fort Canning Park where they drank beer. She gave him a pill to take and he became dizzy and lost consciousness.
When he woke up a few hours later at his home, he found cash and valuables totalling $1,270 missing. He did not know what happened and how he got home.
Earlier on July 29, 2004, she met Mr Vivekananthar Kandasamy at a pub and offered herself to him. They went to his flat in Toa Payoh North where she gave him a few blue coloured pills, claiming they were for sexual enhancement.
The 42-year-old took some beer with the tablets and lost consciousness. When he woke up, he found cash and property totalling $590 missing.
She similarly stole cash and property amounting to $767 from Mr Thirunavukkarasu Veeran Ramasamy, 40, at Hotel 81 in Geylang on March 17, 2005.
The mother of three, whose husband is serving a jail sentence, had convictions for drug possession and theft in 1999.