psychiatrist Chee Kuan Tsee, who testified for the prosecution, argued that Kalidass was not mentally impaired from the effects of alcohol at the time he killed Usharani, and his post-killing actions of disposing of Usharani's body meticulously also further corroborated that his mental state was normal at the time of the crime. He also added that Kalidass was in a state of hysterical amnesia and malingering, meaning that he deliberately lied that he had no memory of the murder and pretending to be suffering from intoxication by excessive alcohol intake when killing Usharani. Verdict and aftermath On 27 March 1980, after hearing the case for nine days, the trial judges Choor Singh and T. S. Sinnathuray rejected Kalidass's defence of alcohol intoxication, and ruled that there was sufficient evidence to prove that Kalidass had intended to strangle the victim after molesting her and that he was fully aware of the magnitude of his actions and offences committed. Therefore, the judges found 26-year-old Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy guilty of murder and he was sentenced to death. Reportedly, Kalidass thanked the court for sentencing him to death. This was one of the last cases presided by Justice Singh, who retired from the Bench on 30 November of that same year, and the former Solicitor-General Abdul Wahab Ghows was appointed as his successor. On 17 May 1982, Kalidass's appeal against his sentence failed, with the three judges - Justice T. Kulasekaram, Justice Lai Kew Chai, and Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin - upholding the trial verdict and agreeing that Kalidass was indeed guilty of murder by law. Afterwards, Kalidass was hanged sometime between May 1982 and April 1985, as from the publicly released list of death row inmates who remained alive in April 1985, which had a total of sixteen names (among them include Adrian Lim of the Toa Payoh ritual murders), Kalidass was not one of these inmates remaining alive. In the aftermath, the Usharani Ganaison case became a case study inside the 1990 book Diminished Responsibility: With Special Reference to Singapore, co-authored by Kok Lee Peng, Molly Cheang and Chee Kuan Tsee. It was also cited among the cases relating to the defence of diminished responsibility in law journals. It was also included among the cases debated by psyhciatrists in 1983 about the defence of substance intoxication and diminished responsibility when facing a murder charge, in light of the 1983 trial ruling