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Jail for voyeur who stood on basin to film couple having sex in public park toilet​

Photo illustration of a voyeur filming in a women's toilet.

Lydia Lam​

@LydiaLamCNA
16 Aug 2021

A voyeur followed a couple to a public toilet at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park and stood on a basin to film them showering and having sex in a cubicle.

Two days later, he waited for them again at the same spot after observing that they would return at a certain time.

Indian national Kuppusamy Karthik, 36, was caught red-handed by another victim's boyfriend. He was jailed for 17 weeks on Monday (Aug 16) after pleading guilty to three counts of voyeurism. Another three charges were taken into consideration.
The court heard that Karthik was near the activity lawn and therapeutic garden at Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park on the evening of Oct 28, 2020.
He saw a man and woman, whose identities have not been established, entering a shower cubicle. He then entered the cubicle next to theirs, which was meant for the disabled.
Curious as to what the couple was doing, Karthik climbed onto the basin and mirror in his cubicle and used a metal bar to maintain his grip, the prosecutor said.
From his perspective, he had a full view of the couple's shower unit, the court heard.

Karthik filmed about three videos and took four to five photos of the couple using his phone, capturing their naked bodies and their faces.
He returned to the same spot two days later. After waiting for some time, he saw the couple enter a shower cubicle. He went to the same adjacent toilet, climbed up on the basin, filmed them engaging in sexual intercourse and took photos of them.
Karthik returned to the park on Nov 19, 2020, and went to a different toilet where he filmed three videos. One of them captured an unidentified woman entering the toilet.
A 22-year-old man later called the police, saying: "I caught this guy who (was) caught looking at my girlfriend peeing."
Karthik was arrested at around 3.30am on Nov 20 and his phone was seized. Investigations uncovered the other recordings he had made illegally.

The prosecutor called for at least 18 weeks' jail, noting that Karthik was goal-oriented in his actions, entering the neighbouring toilet cubicle to observe the couple.
He had also committed similar offences in less than a month.
The maximum punishment for such voyeurism was doubled from one to two years under the Penal Code as part of amendments last year, said the prosecutor.
"This evidences Parliament's intent that such offences should be punished more severely, particularly in response to the perceived inadequacy of previous penalties in deterring would-be offenders," she said.

 

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Man Keeps On Not Wearing Mask Despite Numerous Attempts of Telling By Netizen​

17 Aug 2021

An angry netizen G Lim uploaded and shared on social media platform about the action of the inconsiderate man in the video who refuses to wear his mask properly. According to Lim, he has numerous times told the man to wear his mask properly but apparently he does not bother.

Video can be found below.

 

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A pattern: The Straits Times will mention that the offender is a Singaporean but will not mention the citizenship if the offender is a Permanent Resident or is from another country.

A year in jail for man who burned maid's left forearm with heated metal spatula​

Rajamanickam Suresh Kumar came home drunk again the next day and pulled the woman's left wrist before pushing her into her room.
ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Aug 17, 2021


SINGAPORE - After a drinking session, an intoxicated man picked up a heated metal spatula and used it to burn his domestic helper's left forearm on Oct 18, 2018.
Rajamanickam Suresh Kumar came home drunk again the next day and pulled the woman's left wrist before pushing her into her room.
The 35-year-old offender was on Tuesday (Aug 17) sentenced to a year's jail.
After a trial, District Judge Ronald Gwee had earlier found him guilty of one count each of assaulting and using criminal force on Indian national Vadivel Gowthami.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Thiagesh Sukumaran had said in his submissions that Rajamanickam's wife was Ms Vadivel's employer.
It was the maid's first time in Singapore and she did not know anyone here except for her husband's aunt who also worked as a domestic helper.



Ms Vadivel, who earned $400 a month, started working at Rajamanickam's Jurong West flat in April 2018.
She worked six days a week and was tasked to perform chores including cleaning as well as cooking.
The DPP said that the maid later stated that she felt tired every day.
She lodged a complaint to her agent in July 2018, stating that she wanted to return to India. Soon after, the agent told Rajamanickam's wife about what had happened.

Ms Vadivel testified during the trial that the wife approached her. The woman then told the maid to direct all complaints to her instead of the agent.
Ms Vadivel was also told to continue working for the household, said the DPP.
During the trial, the court heard that Rajamanickam was drunk when he returned home on Oct 18, 2018.
DPP Thiagesh said that Ms Vadivel then went to the kitchen to prepare him some thosai - a type of crepe.
After placing a bowl of chutney on a dining table, she returned to the kitchen and started looking for a spatula which she was using to prepare the meal.
The DPP said: "While she was doing so, she realised that the accused was next to her holding the spatula. He used the spatula to burn her left forearm."
Rajamanickam then left the kitchen and Ms Vadivel continued cooking before she went to bed.
The court heard that he came home drunk again at around 10.30pm the next day and asked the maid for his daughter's whereabouts.
He then told Ms Vadivel to bring her home after he found out that the girl was at his mother-in-law's house.
The prosecutor said: "The victim refused because it was past her working hours. The accused then told the victim, 'Since MOM (the Ministry of Manpower) had informed you to sleep at 10pm, why are you still awake?', pulled her left wrist and pushed her into her room. He then closed the door."
Ms Vadivel later told her husband about what had happened and he told her to return to India. She finally alerted the police on Oct 21, 2018.
During the trial, Rajamanickam, who was unrepresented, denied committing the offences.
"The accused simply testified that he did not commit (them) and provided no other explanation," said DPP Thiagesh.
For assaulting a maid with a heated object, an offender can be jailed for up to 10 1/2 years and fined or caned or receive any combination of such punishments.

 

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Hower, Today Online reported that the offender is a Permanent Resident from India.


Man jailed 1 year for abusing maid by burning her forearm with a spatula while drunk

By LOUISA TANG
Published AUGUST 17, 2021

Rajamanickam Suresh Kumar arriving at the State Courts on May 19, 2021.

• Rajamanickam Suresh Kumar was found guilty of two charges of abusing Ms Vadivel Gowthami
• He burned the domestic worker’s forearm with a spatula and pulled her wrist in 2018
• While on trial, the 35-year-old failed to turn up in court and was charged with jumping bail

SINGAPORE — A 35-year-old man was sentenced to one year behind bars on Tuesday (Aug 17) for twice abusing his domestic worker in 2018 after returning home intoxicated.

Rajamanickam Suresh Kumar, a Singapore permanent resident from India, was found guilty of voluntarily causing hurt to Ms Vadivel Gowthami by means of a heated substance by burning her forearm with a spatula.

He was also convicted of using criminal force on the Indian national by pulling her wrist and pushing her into her room.

He denied committing the offences during his trial but District Judge Ronald Gwee found that the prosecution had proved the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.

On the second day of his trial on Oct 20 last year, Rajamanickam also failed to turn up in court, saying he felt unwell.

He was hauled back and charged the next day with absconding while out on bail. Deputy Public Prosecutor Thiagesh Sukumaran asked for a pre-trial conference to be held to deal with this charge.

Rajamanickam was remanded after allegedly jumping bail, up till December last year. This period will be factored into his jail sentence.

He was unrepresented as two lawyers who previously defended him had discharged themselves.


WHAT HAPPENED

During the trial, the court heard it was Ms Vadivel’s first time working in Singapore. Ms Vadivel cleaned, cooked and took care of Rajamanickam’s children. She earned S$400 a month and was told that she had to work between 5.30am and 11.30pm every day.

She testified that she told her agent in July 2018 that she wanted to return to India, as she felt tired every day.

The agent said she could not help her, but subsequently told Rajamanickam’s wife about Ms Vadivel’s complaint.

On Oct 18, 2018, Rajamanickam returned home in an intoxicated state at about 7.30pm.

Ms Vadivel was in the midst of making thosai, an Indian savoury pancake, when she went to the hall for a short while. When she went back to the kitchen, Rajamanickam was holding the spatula, which he then used to burn her forearm.

He left and she later went to sleep in her room.

After reporting the case to the police, she told staff at Ng Teng Fong General Hospital that he had been upset with her for preparing dinner late.

The next day, Ms Vadivel told Rajamanickam’s wife, Ms Pandiselve Pandian, that she had burned herself. She lied because she was having financial difficulties and no longer wished to return to India.

Later that night, Rajamanickam returned home drunk once more. He told Ms Vadivel to go to his mother-in-law’s place to bring his daughter home.

Ms Vadivel refused to do this as it was past her working hours. He then told her: “Since MOM (Ministry of Manpower) informed you to sleep at 10pm, why are you still awake?”, pulled her wrist and pushed her into her room.

The next day, she told Ms Pandiselve to send her back but the other woman told her to stay on.

Ms Vadivel soon returned to the unit from Ms Pandiselve’s mother’s home to retrieve some belongings before calling the police.

The maximum penalty for causing hurt by means of a heated substance is up to seven years’ jail, a fine and caning.

Employers who cause hurt to domestic helpers in their household are liable to one-and-a-half times the punishment — resulting in up to 10.5 years’ jail.

For using criminal force, Rajamanickam could have been jailed for up to three months or fined up to S$1,500, or both.

If convicted of absconding, he could be jailed up to three years or fined, or both.

 

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Two travellers given jail sentence after spending time together in hotel room while on SHN​

Bojanki Suresh Naidu (left) and Bharati Tulshiram Choudhari were each sentenced to three weeks' jail.
ST PHOTOS: KELVIN CHNG

David Sun

Aug 17, 2021

SINGAPORE - A desire to chat and share snacks while serving stay-home notice (SHN) in a hotel here has earned two travellers a stay behind bars.
Bojanki Suresh Naidu, 37, and Bharati Tulshiram Choudhari, 48, were each sentenced to three weeks' jail on Tuesday (Aug 17) for breaching their SHNs.
They had each pleaded to a charge of exposing others to the risk of infection while having reason to suspect they may have been carriers of Covid-19.
Another charge for not wearing a mask was taken into consideration for Suresh during sentencing.
The Indian nationals had flown into Singapore on the same flight from India on March 14.
The prosecution said this was at the height of the second wave in India, with the Delta variant causing record-breaking infections and deaths.

Both are Singapore permanent residents, and did not to know each other prior to the flight. But they became acquainted as their rooms were both on the 16th floor of Oasia Hotel Novena.
They exchanged numbers after Suresh, a logistics lead with pharmaceutical company Novartis, dialled the number for Bharati's room. She was unemployed at the time.
They came up with a plan to meet at her room, for Suresh to collect snacks from Bharati and for them to chat.
At about 12.30am on March 20, Suresh left his room without wearing a mask and went to Bharati's room.

She opened the door for him and they were in the room together till about 1am.
When Suresh went back to his room, he found himself locked out, and went back to Bharati's room for another five minutes.
He then used his mobile phone to call the hotel staff, and a security officer let him back into his room at about 1.20am.
The officer asked Suresh how he came to be locked out, and Suresh lied by claiming he had difficulties breathing and had left his room for fresh air.
When the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority investigated, the duo lied and attempted to portray their meeting as accidental.
Suresh claimed that he drank two cans of beer and felt suffocated, leaving to get fresh air. He said he had knocked on Bharati's door for help.
Bharati lied that she heard a knock and found Suresh outside her door, claiming that he said he was feeling suffocated and needed help.

But their story fell apart because of security camera footage of the hotel's corridor which showed that they had both opened their doors at the same time at 12.30am, as prearranged.
On Tuesday, both pleaded for leniency from the court.
Bharati said she has been living in Singapore for 11 years, and that she has embarrassed her family.
Suresh said he has been living in Singapore for more than a decade, and had been a volunteer at a community club for seven years.
He added that he was not in a relationship with Bharati, and that she had only wanted to help him by giving him food.
He also said he has a wife and two kids here to support.

District Judge Chay Yuen Fatt allowed both of them to defer their sentences so they could settle their personal affairs before going to jail.
Suresh is to surrender himself on Sept 6, and Bharati is to surrender herself on Aug 31.
For breaching their SHNs and exposing others to the risk of infection, they could each have been jailed for up to six months and fined up to $10,000.
Repeat offenders can be jailed for up to a year and fined up to $20,000.

 

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Jail for man who assaulted fellow poker player for cheating, took S$70,000 from his bank account

By LOUISA TANG
Published AUGUST 23, 2021

Nuria Ling/TODAY
Kesigan Emmanuel Santhakumar at State Courts on Aug 23, 2021.

• Kesigan Emmanuel Santhakumar, 26, organised a poker session that exceeded the maximum group size allowed under Covid-19 laws
• He accused a fellow player of cheating and demanded compensation
• He then beat the victim up and transferred S$70,000 out of the victim’s account without his consent
• He was jailed three months and five weeks for his actions

SINGAPORE — Not content with breaching Covid-19 safe distancing laws by hosting poker sessions with more than a dozen other players, Kesigan Emmanuel Santhakumar confronted one of them for cheating.

He and a few friends soon beat the victim up, before he logged into the victim’s internet banking account and transferred S$70,000 to his friend’s account.

He also made the victim sign a handwritten document declaring that the “debt” had been paid off.

On Monday (Aug 23), Kesigan, 26, was sentenced to three months and five weeks’ jail for his actions on July 29 last year.

Singapore was in its second phase of reopening at the time, with only five people allowed to gather for social purposes to stem the spread of Covid-19.

Kesigan pleaded guilty to one charge each of voluntarily causing hurt to Mr Ian Lee Enyuan, 32, unauthorised modification of computer material, and exceeding the maximum group size allowed.

Four other charges, including extortion, were taken into consideration for sentencing.


At least one other man involved, Daryl Tan You Ming, has been dealt with.

Tan was jailed and fined in June after letting Kesigan use the warehouse unit he rented at the Northstar @ AMK building, located along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, to play poker. Tan had also joined in the assault.

HOW IT BEGAN

A few days before the poker game was to be held, Tan handed over his set of keys to his friend, who then passed it to Kesigan.

Before this, Tan had also allowed Kesigan to use the unit to host poker games on a few occasions.

When the game — a popular variant of the card game known as Texas hold ‘em poker — started at about 10pm on July 28 last year, at least 18 people were playing. Each game comprised up to 10 players and a dealer.

The composition of the group changed frequently as several persons came and left after playing a few rounds of poker.

At about 3am, eight people were left at the unit including Tan, Mr Lee and Kesigan.

Kesigan then asked to speak to Mr Lee privately and confronted him about his cheating. However, Mr Lee denied this, claiming he had made a mistake in covering two poker cards on the table.

Sometime later, Kesigan confronted Mr Lee again and he denied the cheating allegation once more. Kesigan told him that according to conventional poker rules, whoever cheated during a game would have to compensate all players seven times of their buy-in chip amounts.

Kesigan then asked Mr Lee to compensate S$50,000 — 15 buyers’ buy-in amounts.

Mr Lee bargained for an amount of S$900, saying he had this in his bank account. Kesigan saw red and punched him on the nose.

Mr Lee started bleeding profusely and the group demanded to know how much personal savings he had, but he refused to share this.

When they checked his bag, they found a mobile phone and began questioning him more aggressively, believing he was lying about the true state of his personal finances. He then agreed to unlock the phone.

GOT INTO VICTIM’S INTERNET BANKING ACCOUNT

Kesigan also asked Mr Lee to hand over his wallet. When he found a DBS debit card, Mr Lee said it was not his and that there was no internet banking account linked to it.

Kesigan then used the card to buy 40 iPhones from e-marketplace Lazada and waited for the one-time password to be sent to the phone. He discovered that the password had been sent to a second mobile phone in Mr Lee’s bag, and also found Mr Lee’s internet banking token.

Angry at this, Kesigan kneed Mr Lee in the face and the group began assaulting him.

Kesigan later got into Mr Lee’s internet banking account through the DBS mobile application.

Upon discovering Mr Lee had S$73,000 in his account, Kesigan increased the funds transfer limit to S$70,000 and transferred this sum to his friend’s account. The friend was identified only as Razzab in court documents.

After this, the group prepared a handwritten document for Mr Lee to declare that he owed Kesigan S$70,000 and that the debt had been paid off, and that he did not wish to pursue the matter further.

Kesigan took a video of Mr Lee signing this document.

Mr Lee was taken to the National University Hospital later that evening after lodging a police report. He suffered a small cut on his face and a possible broken nose.

For breaking Covid-19 laws, Kesigan could have been jailed for up to six months or fined up to S$10,000, or punished with both.

For voluntarily causing hurt, he could have been jailed for up to three years or fined up to S$5,000, or both. And for unauthorised modification of computer material, he could have been jailed for up to three years or fined up to S$10,000, or both.

 

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IMH health attendant jailed 3 weeks for slapping schizophrenic patient​

Sadasivam Kannan was fired from IMH in March last year after working there for over 17 years.ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Wong Shiying

Aug 23, 2021

SINGAPORE - Stressed and angered by a patient’s aggressive behaviour, a health attendant at the Institute of Mental Health slapped the man’s head twice.
Sadasivam Kannan, 61, was sentenced to three weeks’ jail on Monday (Aug 23) after pleading guilty to one count of voluntarily causing hurt to a vulnerable person in 2019.
He was fired from IMH in March last year after working there for over 17 years.
His victim, aged 59, is a long-term patient at the facility who suffers from chronic schizophrenia. He has been at IMH since 2005 and is incapable of protecting himself from abuse due to his mental illness, the court heard.
Sadasivam and two other staff nurses - Muhammad Ihsan Mahmud, 32, and Iylia Muhammad Afiq Nor Effendi, 25 - were charged in relation to assaulting the patient on Dec 8, 2019.
The court heard that the victim was moved to a lounge area after getting a haircut that morning. He started toying with another patient’s urinal and splashed some urine on an attending nurse.

Ihsan heard of what happened and splashed hand sanitiser on the victim’s face three times within several minutes.
The victim then began to create a disturbance in the lounge, which led to Sadasivam, Ihsan and Iylia using three restraints on him instead of one.
When the victim grew agitated, Ihsan punched him in the face twice before continuing to secure the restraints on him.
The victim remained aggressive and kicked at the nurses, so the trio held him down to subdue him.

As Sadasivam was trying to fix the restraints on his arm, the victim kicked another patient. This riled up Sadasivam, who slapped the back of his head and scolded him.
The victim cowered in response and calmed down while Sadasivam continued fixing his restraints. He then rocked his head back and forth and placed his head close to Sadasivam’s head at one point. Sadasivam slapped him again.
Iylia allegedly also slapped the victim on his back, shoulder and neck several times. He is also accused of tilting the victim’s wheelchair forward and sideways, nearly causing him to fall off.
Footage of the incident captured by a security camera was played in court.
Iylia later discovered that the victim had bruises around his right eye and applied an ice pack to the area.
He then reported the victim’s injuries to IMH management, prompting a human resource manager to lodge a police report.
The victim was sent that day to Singapore General Hospital, where he was found to have a fractured toe and bruises around his eyes, and on his jaw and toes.

Seeking at least four weeks’ jail for Sadasivam, Deputy Public Prosecutor Phoebe Tan said there was a breach of trust and duty of care he owed to the victim.
She added that his actions “undermined public confidence in the administration of healthcare services in Singapore”.
In mitigation, Sadasivam’s lawyer Gloria James said he is “not known to be a violent person” and cares for his visually impaired wife at home.
She added that her client had given the victim a letter of apology to show his remorse.
For voluntarily causing hurt, Sadasivam could have been jailed for up to two years, or fined up to $5,000, or both. For assaulting a vulnerable person, he could have been sentenced up to 1½ times that punishment.
Ihsan and Iylia were also charged with voluntarily causing hurt to a vulnerable victim and using criminal force against him.
Iylia faces an additional charge of committing a rash act that endangers human life. His case is pending.
Ihsan was convicted and sentenced to nine weeks' jail in January this year.

 

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Two club bosses who told dancers to have sex with customers jailed and fined​

The duo employed several women as performing artistes to dance and entertain customers at their club, Kollywood.PHOTOS: KOLLYWOOD MUSIC LOUNGE/FACEBOOK

Selina Lum
Law Correspondent

Aug 25, 2021

SINGAPORE - A Bangladeshi woman came to Singapore thinking that an agent had arranged a domestic worker job for her, but was instead told to work as a dancer in a club.
Two weeks later, she was promised $1,000 if she had sex with a friend of one of the club's bosses. She refused and was slapped by one of the bosses.
The following month, she and three other performing artistes at the club went to the authorities.
Last year, the two men who ran the club were found guilty of several prostitution-related offences and for obstructing the course of justice.
Rajendran Nagarethinam, 60, who faced four charges, and Arumaikannu Sasikumar, 46, who faced three charges, appealed against their convictions and sentences.
On Wednesday (Aug 25), the High Court partly allowed Rajendran's appeals, acquitting him of one charge and reducing his sentence in two other charges.


His overall sentence was cut from 30 months' jail and a $3,000 fine to 19 months' jail and a $2,500 fine.
The court dismissed Sasikumar's appeals and upheld his sentence of 16 months' jail and a $11,000 fine.
Rajendran, a Singaporean, and Sasikumar, a permanent resident, employed several women as performing artistes to dance and entertain customers at their club, Kollywood.
Two such women were Ms Akter Bithi, who arrived in Singapore on Sept 7, 2015, and Ms Akter Tina, who arrived here on Jan 16, 2016. They were then in their mid-20s.

On separate occasions, Rajendran or Sasikumar, assisted by a Bangladeshi employee named Roky, asked the two women to provide sexual services to customers.
Ms Bithi reluctantly agreed to have sex with two customers as she was worried that Sasikumar would withhold her salary. Each customer paid her $500, which she passed to Sasikumar.
Ms Tina adamantly refused to have sex with customers, even after Rajendran showed her bundles of $50 and $100 notes.

Angered, he slapped her and then gripped her from behind by the neck, but she freed herself.
In the early hours of Feb 11, 2016, Ms Bithi, Ms Tina and two other women who worked at the club left the flat where they were housed.
With help from a compatriot, they reported to the Manpower Ministry that they had not been paid their salaries and were made to go out with customers.
Rajendran and Sasikumar each faced charges for procuring Ms Bithi for the purposes of prostitution and for living on her earnings from prostitution.
Rajendran also faced a charge of recruiting Ms Tina for sexual exploitation.
Both men also each faced a charge of obstructing the course of justice by arranging for Roky to leave Singapore in order to evade arrest.
In Rajendran's appeal, he said that Ms Tina was recruited to be a domestic worker and then a performing artiste, not for sexual exploitation.
He argued that there was no sexual exploitation as she refused his requests to have sex with customers.
He also argued that he did not procure Ms Bithi for prostitution.

Justice Tay found that Rajendran clearly tried to recruit Ms Tina for the purpose of prostitution. He convicted Rajendran of an amended charge of attempted recruitment, and cut the jail term for this charge from 14 months to seven months.
The judge acquitted Rajendran of the procurement charge as there was insufficient evidence to show that Rajendran was involved in the first instance of Ms Bithi's prostitution.
Accordingly, he halved Rajendran's sentence for living on the earnings of prostitution, from eight months' jail and a $1,000 fine to four months' jail and a $500 fine.

 

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Jail for man who verbally abused taxi driver with vulgarities and racially charged slurs​

Shaffiq Alkhatib
Court Correspondent

Aug 25, 2021

SINGAPORE - A man was riding in a taxi last year when he hurled vulgarities and racially charged slurs at the driver, as he felt the cabby had taken a longer route to his destination.

Sahayanathan Anthony, now 48, was on Thursday (Aug 26) sentenced to a week and 10 days' jail after he pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment.
The Singaporean also admitted to being drunk in a public place and causing annoyance to the cabby - Mr Tan Take Hok, 66.
Sahayanathan and his wife had boarded the taxi in Toh Guan Road near Jurong East Central at 6.54pm on Oct 30 last year.
Sahayanathan directed the cabby to take them to Plaza Singapura shopping mall in Orchard Road.
As they were on their way to the mall, Sahayanathan became agitated. He felt the cabby had taken a longer route to their destination.

He then started to verbally abuse the driver.
State Prosecuting Officer M. Mariyappan said that Sahayanathan did not pay the $17.80 fare when the taxi arrived at the mall.
The SPO added: "The accused informed the complainant that he was rushing to purchase a handphone inside the mall and would come back later to pay the taxi driver once he was done... The accused and his wife then alighted from the taxi.
"The complainant did not agree to the arrangement, as he had concerns that the accused might not come back to settle his taxi fare."
Mr Tan called the police and also followed the couple into the mall so as not to lose sight of them.
Police officers arrived at Plaza Singapura at around 7.45pm and noticed that Sahayanathan was intoxicated. He was also shouting at Mr Tan.
The officers had to separate the pair.
SPO Mariyappan said: "Whilst the police officers were trying to find out the facts and calm down the accused, (he) kept shouting, 'I want to punch him' and charged towards the complainant. The accused was stopped by the police officers, who restrained him."
In an unrelated incident, the court heard that Sahayanathan had also hurled an obscene word at a Certis Cisco officer at the Singapore General Hospital on Feb 28 this year.

 

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Jail for man who stole excavator and tried to sell it, then fled to Malaysia

By LOUISA TANG
Published AUGUST 26, 2021

Abdul Zreika/Unsplash
Nanthakumaran Lokanathan tried to sell an excavator worth about S$31,000 for S$5,000 to S$6,000.


SINGAPORE — Soon after stealing an excavator from a Jurong industrial area and attempting to sell it, Nanthakumaran Lokanathan fled to Malaysia and was arrested only two years later.

The 44-year-old Singaporean was on Thursday (Aug 26) jailed two-and-a-half years after pleading guilty to a theft charge.

Court documents did not state how he stole the heavy construction equipment, which was worth about S$31,000.

The court heard that construction firm Ram Brothers Construction & Trading rented it and last left it along a pathway outside 14 Jalan Tukang in Jurong on March 28, 2018.

The next day, a representative from the firm checked the excavator’s global positioning system and realised that it was on the premises of used-vehicle-parts dealer Hon Li Hin Enterprise, in the Kranji industrial area.

Closed-circuit television camera footage showed that Nanthakumaran brought the excavator into the compound around 11.30am that day before leaving.

Nanthakumaran had earlier approached Mr Mok Fook Wah, a third-party heavy-vehicle repairman, to sell an excavator.

Mr Mok then referred him to Mr Jway Hong Chua, the director of Hon Li Hin Enterprise.

Based on court documents, Nanthakumaran called Mr Jway with his sales pitch on March 25, 2018, three days before the excavator went missing.

Nanthakumaran followed Mr Jway’s request to deliver the vehicle to his premises. It was to be sold for S$5,000 to S$6,000.

However, before Nanthakumaran could receive any money, Ram Brothers recovered the excavator from Mr Jway on March 30, 2018.

Nanthakumaran left for Malaysia that day when he found out that the police were searching for him.

He was arrested at the Woodlands Checkpoint only on April 17 last year.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Chee Ee Ling asked for a jail term of two-and-a-half to three years, noting that Nanthakumaran had re-offended soon after his release from seven years of corrective training in January 2018 for attempted theft.

Corrective training, typically given to habitual offenders, carries a minimum five-year jail term. Early release for good behaviour is not allowed.

In mitigation, Nanthakumaran’s lawyer Justin Phua argued that his client ultimately did not gain financially from the theft and did it out of “poverty, foolhardiness and desperation”.

In sentencing him, District Judge Eugene Teo considered Nanthakumaran’s early plea of guilt and that the excavator was recovered soon after the theft, which reduced the harm caused from his acts.

The judge also warned Nanthakumaran not to “end up in the same situation again”.

Nanthakumaran could have been jailed for up to three years or fined, or given both penalties.

 

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HDB enforcement officer jailed for tip-offs on surprise inspections​

Kalayarasan Karuppaya was on Aug 30 jailed for 25 days.ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

David Sun

Aug 30, 2021


SINGAPORE - An investigation officer with the Housing Board who was supposed to catch law breakers through surprise inspections tipped off his friend about such checks, helping the latter evade getting caught.
Kalayarasan Karuppaya, 55, who held the rank of higher estate executive with the HDB's operations department, was on Monday (Aug 30) jailed for 25 days.
He pleaded guilty to two charges under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), with a third charge taken into consideration.
Kalayarasan was an HDB enforcement officer who conducted surprise inspections on flats for illegal subletting and occupancy.
In 2017, he met Damandeep Singh, a 22-year-old Indian national, while conducting an inspection at a unit Damandeep was staying in.
They later became friends, and would occasionally contact each other over the phone.


Damandeep later moved to another unit, which he illegally sublet to others.
Some 12 or 13 people ended up staying at the unit at any time, and about $200 was collected monthly from each of the illegal subtenants.
HDB then received complaints from members of the public about suspected overcrowding and noise at the unit.
A surprise inspection was planned on May 8, 2019, and the case was assigned to Kalayarasan.

But he told Damandeep about the inspection beforehand.
Damandeep in turn got the illegal subtenants to quickly move out of the unit before the inspection.
The case was closed after the inspection found no signs of overcrowding or illegal subletting.
But police checked the unit On Aug 24 that year and found 19 people there, and again on Sept 4, finding 18 people.
They then handed the case over to the HDB.

Kalayarasan again tipped off Damandeep about a surprise inspection he was to conduct on Sept 10 that year.
This case was also closed after the inspection again found no signs of overcrowding or illegal subletting.
But after the unit's owner was informed about the police referral, Damandeep's tenancy was terminated and the unit was vacated the same month.
Kalayarasan's actions came to light after the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau received information in January last year about his tip-offs to Damandeep.
The HDB officer has been suspended since Jan 25 last year.

Damandeep's case is still before the courts.
For each OSA charge of wrongful communication of information, Kalayarasan could have been jailed for up to two years and fined $2,000.

 

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Reformative training for man who sexually assaulted drunk friend, filmed him naked

By LOUISA TANG

Updated SEPTEMBER 01, 2021

• Hari Kishen Balakrishnan, 20, and the victim, 23, went drinking with friends late last year
• They later went to the home of two other friends to drink some more
• Hari sexually assaulted and molested the almost unconscious victim in a bedroom
• He also took seven video clips of his acts

SINGAPORE — After a late-night drinking session, a 20-year-old man sexually assaulted a 23-year-old male friend who was almost unconscious.

Hari Kishen Balakrishnan also took seven video clips of him performing sex acts on the naked victim.

He subsequently deleted the clips but the police later recovered them during forensic investigations.

On Wednesday (Sept 1), the stateless man, who turns 21 later this month, was sentenced to at least six months’ reformative training — a regimented rehabilitation programme for those under 21 who commit relatively serious crimes.

Offenders are given a minimum period that is subject to how they respond to the rehabilitation.

The prosecution pointed out that if Hari was sentenced as an adult offender, he could have been jailed for at least six years and given caning.

District Judge May Mesenas in reply stressed that rehabilitation is the predominant sentencing consideration for young offenders but given the seriousness of Hari’s offences, deterrence had to feature in the punishment as well.

Hari had pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count each of sexual assault by penetration and making an obscene film. Another charge of molestation was taken into consideration for sentencing.

WHAT HAPPENED

The court heard that the victim, who cannot be named due to a court order to protect his identity, and his 19-year-old female friend met at Clarke Quay on Nov 7 last year.

A few hours later, the pair met Hari and another female friend, also aged 20.

The group chatted at the Read Bridge area till about 6am the next day before heading for breakfast along River Valley Road.

Hari and the victim went to a nearby convenience store at about 9am to buy more cigarettes and alcohol, while the two women went home.

They continued to drink, smoke and chat in the vicinity till the victim’s mobile phone ran low on battery.

Hari suggested that he could charge the phone and drink more at an apartment where two of their friends stayed.

After they arrived at the apartment around 11am, Hari offered the victim three to four glasses of whiskey mixed with mineral water.

The victim soon passed out from the alcohol and Hari proceeded to take him to a bedroom while their friends stayed in the living room watching television.

In the bedroom, Hari sexually assaulted his victim for about 17 minutes.

The victim was almost unconscious and had no strength to open his eyes or fight back, but could feel what Hari was doing to him.

He also had not indicated to Hari that he would have consented before passing out, the court heard.

Hari filmed seven clips of the sexual assault which showed the victim with his eyes closed the entire time.

The victim eventually regained enough strength to wake up. While he was furious and wanted to beat Hari up, he composed himself as he knew his friends were around. He went to the kitchen to smoke, where Hari joined him.

The victim then left the unit alone at about 6.30pm and called his female friend, telling her he had been sexually assaulted, before lodging a police report at Kampong Java Neighbourhood Police Centre.

Hari was arrested the day after committing the offence. Police officers seized the phone he had used to film the victim.

Adult offenders convicted of sexual assault by penetration can be jailed for up to 20 years, as well as fined or caned.

For making an obscene film, offenders can be fined between S$20,000 and S$40,000 or jailed up to two years, or both.

 

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Life in jail for man with schizophrenia who killed older sister by stamping on her chest

By LOUISA TANG
Published SEPTEMBER 14, 2021


Raja Vinayagar pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court to one count of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

• Raja Vinayagar had a history of being violent towards his family, including his mother and sisters
• He was home in August 2019 when his oldest sister brought him some drinks
• In an unprovoked attack at a nearby lift lobby, he struck her face, pushed her to the ground and stamped on her
• He then took her back home and lied to police officers that she had suffered an asthma attack
• The prosecution sought life imprisonment due to his mentally unstable state

SINGAPORE — Having occasionally acted violently towards members of his family, Raja Vinayagar fatally attacked his oldest sister at the lift lobby outside their flat one day, stamping on her chest so hard that he fractured her spine and several ribs.

The 50-year-old Singaporean was sentenced in the High Court to life imprisonment on Tuesday (Sept 14) after pleading guilty to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Prosecutors had sought this penalty, noting that he satisfied the criteria of a mentally unstable offender who poses a serious danger to the public for an indeterminate time, and who needs to be incarcerated for life for public protection.

Vinayagar has suffered from schizophrenia since 1987, receiving an exemption from National Service and remaining unemployed since age 25.

He was repeatedly admitted to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) over the years, mostly for wilfully not taking his medication and being violent to his mother and sisters. His last admission was from November 2015 to March 2016, when his family had to call the police as they could not manage him.

About a week before the killing on Aug 23, 2019, he behaved aggressively towards his 85-year-old mother and pushed her, but she did not retaliate as she feared his physical stature.

In the early morning of that fateful day, he grabbed his mother’s hand forcefully.

His eldest sister — Gayathiri Palaniappan, 66 — saw this and defused the situation by taking her out of the flat. The two women then sat at an open area for several hours until Gayathiri bought some drinks and went back home to pass them to Vinayagar.

He soon went downstairs to look for their mother before going back up.

He then suddenly threw the drinks to the ground, hit Gayathiri forcefully in the face and pushed her to the ground. She lost consciousness and he forcefully stomped on her upper body at least five times in quick succession.

Their 91-year-old family friend saw this and became frightened, fleeing down the stairs. She called their other sister, who called Vinayagar on the home phone.

He told her that Gayathiri was lying in the room and that she had gotten a beating.

The other woman eventually returned to the flat after calling the police. After officers and paramedics arrived at the scene, Vinayagar had moved Gayathiri into a bedroom to conceal what he had done.

He knew that she needed urgent medical attention due to her pre-existing condition. She had been treated for pulmonary tuberculosis in her 30s, but suffered from progressive bronchiectasis from 2013 with recurrent episodes.

This is a lung condition that leads to sufferers coughing up mucus, being short of breath and coughing up blood.

However, Vinayagar had not called an ambulance. He then lied to police officers that she had collapsed in her bedroom after returning home panting, and that she was having an asthma attack.

The paramedics noticed blood around her head but did not suspect anything untoward, being focused on trying to resuscitate her.

They were unsuccessful and she was taken to Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Vinayagar was arrested three days after the killing.

An autopsy showed that her cause of death was haemorrhage due to blunt force trauma to her chest.

Dr Cheow Enquan from IMH found that while Vinayagar was suffering a relapse of his schizophrenia at the time, and his psychotic symptoms had likely substantially influenced his actions, he was not of unsound mind and was fit to plead in court.

The psychiatrist also stated that Vinayagar requires long-term, probably lifelong, treatment and seemed to be at high risk of future relapses.

He had also relapsed despite being given his regular slow-release antipsychotic injection, after rejecting oral medicine while in remand.

“The accused’s schizophrenia increases the risk of violence he poses to those around him, especially when he is in relapse. While he is not the most dangerously violent, he poses a substantial danger to others when he is in relapse,” Dr Cheow added.

During his last admission in IMH, Vinayagar denied any psychotic symptoms or being violent at home or hitting his mother.

Those convicted of culpable homicide can be jailed for life or up to 20 years, as well as caned. Offenders aged 50 or above cannot be caned under Singapore law.

 

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Ex-assistant director of now-defunct childcare centre chain fined for role in govt subsidy scam​

Arulanadam Rajeswary had conspired with two other accomplices.
ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Dominic Low

Sep 21, 2021

SINGAPORE - The former assistant director of a now-defunct childcare centre chain conspired with two others to scam a government agency into wrongfully disbursing nearly $5,000 in childcare subsidies.
Arulanadam Rajeswary, who was the principal at several Faith Educare childcare centres before she was promoted, was fined $6,000 on Tuesday (Sept 21).
The 53-year-old pleaded guilty to two cheating charges involving $2,100 of the sum wrongfully disbursed.
Another six similar charges were taken into consideration during sentencing by District Judge Wong Li Tein.
Rajeswary had conspired with two other accomplices - Josephine Tan Poh Choo, 53, and Fatimah Bivee Mohd Shariff, 43 - to submit multiple false subsidy claims to the Early Childcare Development Agency (ECDA)in 2016.
The claims were for children who did not or had yet to attend the childcare centres.

Tan was the director and shareholder of the centres, while Fatimah was the principal at two of them.
Sometime in 2015 or January 2016, Tan instructed Rajeswary to submit basic childcare subsidy claims to the ECDA for children who did not or had yet to attend the centres.
Rajeswary was to use information previously obtained in forms submitted to the childcare centres by parents seeking to apply for the subsidies.
She was also to "confirm" the children's attendance in the ECDA's Childcare Link System, where the subsidy claims are submitted.

Fatimah would sign "on behalf" of the parents in the "sign-in and sign-out" records to show that the children were purportedly there.
The ECDA disbursed $4,800 as a result of the false claims by the trio.
It made a police report on Aug 31, 2016. Court documents did not state how the offences were discovered.
Rajeswary and Fatimah did not directly benefit from the conspiracy to cheat the agency, said the court documents.
Tan had made full restitution of the amount that was wrongfully disbursed.

Rajeswary is the last member of the trio to be dealt with.
Tan was fined $10,500 on July 6, while Fatimah was fined $3,000 on July 1.
In Tan's case, the court had heard that she sold the centres in December 2019.
For each of her cheating-related charges, Rajeswary could have been jailed for up to three years, or fined, or both.

 

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Man jailed 1 year for snatch theft of 72-year-old coffee shop assistant’s gold necklace

By LOUISA TANG
Published SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

While riding home on his motorcycle, Ruben Supramaniam saw from afar that a man at a coffee shop was wearing a gold necklace around his neck and decided to steal it.

SINGAPORE — A 28-year-old man was jailed for a year on Tuesday (Sept 14) for stealing a 72-year-old coffee shop assistant’s gold necklace earlier this year.

Ruben Supramaniam pleaded guilty to one charge of snatch theft and was given the minimum jail term for the offence. He has been remanded since shortly after he struck on July 30.

The Malaysian was a work permit holder and worked in a hotel kitchen at the time, the court heard.

His victim, Mr Ngoh Teck King, helped out at the drinks stall at Kimly Coffeeshop located at Block 1 Upper Aljunied Lane. He worked the night shift from 10.30pm to 7am.

At about 3am, Ruben was riding home on his motorcycle when he noticed Mr Ngoh sitting alone there. He saw from afar that Mr Ngoh wore a gold necklace around his neck and decided to steal it.

He first rode back home at a nearby Housing and Development Board flat. He retrieved two black T-shirts and hid them underneath his white shirt in the elevator, knowing there were police cameras there.

He then walked over to the coffee shop, wrapping one of the black T-shirts around his head to conceal his face.

He put the second black T-shirt over his white one, intending to discard it afterwards to further conceal his identity and evade capture, the court heard.

Ruben got to the coffee shop at about 3.40am while Mr Ngoh was making coffee for a customer. Ruben then snuck into the drinks stall, grabbed Mr Ngoh’s gold necklace from the back and pulled hard.

The force he used caused the necklace chain to break.

Ruben then ran towards the back of a nearby neighbourhood police centre, taking off the black T-shirts he was wearing and discarding them.

Mr Ngoh called the police to report the theft. He did not suffer any injuries.

Ruben handed the gold necklace to his friend, who pawned it at a pawn shop at Marsiling MRT Station for S$1,000.

This sum and the necklace, which was worth about S$2,500, were later recovered.

The police previously said that officers from Tanglin Police Division had established Ruben’s identity through ground enquiries and with the help of images from closed-circuit television and police cameras.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Bryan Joel Lim sought the sentence imposed, saying Ruben had readily confessed to his crime and “provided substantial details”, leading police officers to where he had discarded the black T-shirts.

For snatch theft, he could have been jailed for between one and seven years, and caned.

 

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Security guard fined $4,500 for pouring hand sanitiser into colleague's water bottle​

Dilip Kumar Gobind was working the night shift at a condominium in Bedok in April last year when he committed the offence.
ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG

Wong Shiying

Sep 23, 2021

SINGAPORE - Unhappy with a colleague who he felt gossiped too much, a 49-year-old security guard added hand sanitiser into her water bottle as a prank - to "sanitise her mouth".
The victim, also a security guard, experienced pain and irritation in her throat after drinking from the bottle. She did not seek medical attention.
Dilip Kumar Gobind, a Singaporean, was fined $4,500 on Thursday (Sept 23) after pleading guilty to one count of committing a rash act with a harmful substance that was likely to cause hurt to another person.
The court heard that Dilip was working the night shift at a condominium in Bedok in April last year when he committed the offence.
He took the victim's water bottle, which was half-filled with water, from the guard house and squirted at least two pumps of hand sanitiser into it.
The victim, aged 54, tasted the sanitiser when she drank from the bottle the next morning, and spat some of the liquid out. But what she had consumed left a painful sensation in her throat.

She lodged a police report after an operations officer reviewed closed-circuit television footage of the guard house and identified Dilip as the miscreant.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Justin Chua sought a fine of between $1,500 and $2,000 for the accused.
He said a clinical toxicologist had assessed that the solution of water and hand sanitiser was unlikely to have caused serious injury to the victim.
In mitigation, Dilip said he had acted "in a spur of the moment" and regrets his actions. When questioned by the judge, he said he had called the victim to apologise but she did not wish to speak to him.
For the offence, Dilip could have been jailed for up to a year and fined $5,000.

 

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Former worker at adult care home admits to stepping on resident's stomach, kicking him​

Dominic Low


SEP 21, 2021

SINGAPORE - A resident's stay at an adult care home turned into a nightmare when a staff member attacked him on two occasions last year.
The assaults left the victim - a 36-year-old man who has autism, mild intellectual disability and epilepsy - with a bruise on the back of his right thigh stretching from his hip.
The attacker, 28, pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Sept 21) to two charges of voluntarily causing hurt to the victim.
The man, the victim and the home cannot be named as there is a gag order protecting the victim's identity.
The assaults happened on Sept 9 last year at the home, where the man was employed as a care worker.
The Indian national, a work permit holder, had been taking care of the victim since 2019.

At about 7.25am that day, the man was with the victim when the latter grabbed his shirt collar.
The man then threw the resident to the ground, pinned him down by holding his hands and placing a knee on his stomach. The man then stood up and stepped on the resident's stomach once.
He later dragged the victim to the centre of the room they were in and kicked him five times on the outer right thigh.
Another staff member witnessed the incident, but the man told her not to get involved. She left and did not report the matter as she did not want to get into trouble, the court heard.

The man also "raised a finger" at another colleague, who was walking towards the room after the incident, according to court documents. The other worker then turned around and left.
The second assault occurred about 1½ hours later. The resident had touched the man's collar again but removed his hand shortly after, without retaliatory action from the accused.
After some time, the resident approached the accused again, reaching out to him. When purportedly told to sit on the floor, the victim did so, then stretched out his hand.
The worker grabbed the man's hand, dragged him along the floor and kicked him thrice.

A third co-worker walked in on the assault and told the man to stop his abuse. He replied that he could "handle the matter" and told her to leave.
But she stayed and subsequently took the victim out of the room. The colleague also did not report the incident.
The incidents were caught on the home's closed-circuit television cameras.
The victim's injury was discovered by his mother after he returned home on Sept 12 last year, and she contacted the home's staff.
But she was dissatisfied with their replies and wrote an e-mail to the chief executive officer of the organisation managing the home.
The man's offences were later discovered and the CEO lodged a police report.
During investigations, the CEO had explained that autistic patients would occasionally grab another person's shirt due to anxiety.
But he noted that the staff of the home had been trained to "disengage the resident without the use of (disproportionate) force" in such a scenario.
According to the man, the victim would sometimes grab on to his shirt collar when intending to pull him to the ground.

A report by the Institute of Mental Health stated that the victim had a "longstanding history of showing aggressive behaviour towards other people and property" since he was young.
He had been admitted to the institute on 22 separate occasions for behavioural problems that mainly stem from aggressive behaviour, added the report.
But it also stated that the victim's behaviour has been "relatively stable" since his admission to the home, with no aggression reported at his most recent interview in December last year.
The accused care worker is expected to be sentenced on Oct 28.
Offenders convicted of voluntarily causing hurt to others can be jailed for up to three years or fined up to $5,000, or both.
As the victim is a vulnerable person, the man is liable for up to twice the maximum punishment.