A construction worker who refused to leave the scene of last December’s Little India riot was jailed for 15 weeks yesterday.

Indian national Chinnappa Vijayaragunatha Poopathi, 32, was the first of 25 accused to be sentenced.

He was originally charged with rioting but pleaded guilty last Friday to an amended charge of continuing to be in an assembly after it had been ordered to disperse under Section 151 of the Penal Code.

- Reuters