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Three women were jailed on Tuesday for shoplifting at Mustafa Centre in Little India.
Mustafa Centre is Singapore's only 24-hour shopping mall, which is located on Syed Alwi Road in Little India.
Two of them, 32-year-old Hawa Nachia A Muhammad Yassin and her sister-in-law, 35-year-old Najmudeen Saharjath, will each have to spend 12 weeks behind bars.
The housewives had worked together with an alleged accomplice, Najmudeen's husband Mohammed Riaz, to steal more than $$2,500 worth of clothes, stationery and toiletries from the 24-hour store on Jan 15.
According to court documents, the trio arrived at the store at around 8.45pm that day and stuffed the items into Mustafa Centre shopping bags which they found discarded on the premises.
But they were stopped in their tracks by the store's security as they were heading for the exits.
The two women, who were unrepresented, pleaded for leniency, saying they had to care for their children.
Both of them appeared distraught when District Judge Roy Neighbour handed them their sentence.
Muhammad Riaz, a 40-year-old cab driver, hasn't been dealt with. He will be back in court on Thursday next week.
In another case, a 35-year-old retail assistant, Siti Farah Sheik Zainal Abdin, was sentenced to a day's jail and fined $2,000 after stealing more than $300 worth of items from the store.
She was caught when an anti-theft alarm was triggered.
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