Singapore, Nov 13 (IANS) A court in Singapore Wednesday sentenced two sisters of Indian origin to probation and jail for stealing cash and jewellery from a house.
Vigineswari Pasupathy, 24, was put on probation for two years and her elder sister Rajeswari, 26, was jailed for 15 months, the Straits Times reported Wednesday.
The sisters, both assistant sports teachers, broke into the homes of three students taking cricket lessons at St Andrew’s Secondary School and stole more than S$65,000 in cash, jewellery and valuables.
The sisters committed the first burglary in December 2009, the second in September the following year and the third in May 2012.
They pleaded guilty to housebreaking and theft Oct 2.
The court heard that Rajeswari had hatched the plan of taking the house keys of the students attending the cricket sessions so as to burgle their homes when their family members were overseas.