Gurpreet Ram Sidhu (22) and Jaswinder Singh Brar (38) were jailed yesterday for pawning gold-plated copper items and raking in 55,310 Singapore dollars, The Straits Times said.

Sidhu was jailed for 15 months for his role in conspiring to cheat 11 pawnshops between April and October last while Brar has been awarded a ten-month sentence for pawning 30,360 Singapore dollar worth of fake jewellery. The duo were in Singapore on social visit passes and could have been jailed for up to 10 years.