1. STALL ASSISTANT
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Stall assistant jailed for claiming in PR application that adopted children were his own
Published
Dec 8, 2017, 2:09 pm SGT
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Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - In an application for permanent residence status for three children, a stall assistant declared that they were his by marriage. In fact, they had all been adopted by him.
Indian national Noor Shahul Hamid Noorsulthan, 44, who is a Singapore permanent resident, was jailed for two weeks on Friday (Dec 8) for making false statements in the application on Oct 14, 2008.
The offence came to light only many years later. It turned out that the three were Noorsulthan's sister's children whom he had adopted. Two of them - now men aged 23 and 21 - have since served national service. The third is a girl aged 14.
The court heard that between 2003 and 2008, while in India, Noorsulthan decided to apply for a work pass to work in Singapore. He also decided to bring his family members here and apply for PR status for all of them, These included his three adopted children. He and his wife have a daughter, now 18.
He engaged an agent in India and procured documents for the purpose of applying for PR status for himself, his wife and the four children.
He arrived in Singapore and was issued an S pass to work as a chef.
On June 11, 2008, he submitted the forms at the Permanent Resident Services Centre in Kallang Road, applying for PR status for himself, his wife and the four children.
He claimed in the form that all the children were his, by his current marriage.
The application was approved in August the same year. He and his family members were subsequently granted PR status.
But when the Permanent Resident Services Centre checked with the Singapore embassy in Chennai, India, it was discovered that the birth certificates of three of the children were not authentic.
Noorsulthan was arrested on Aug 15 this year.
Pleading for leniency, his lawyer Rajan Supramaniam said his client was remorseful and had learnt his lesson.
"A severe punishment would also throw the accused in greater hardship in view of his job status and financial position which is very much needed to support his family and all his children,'' he said.
Noorsulthan could have been fined up to $4,000 and/or jailed for up to 12 months.
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2. BUS DRIVER
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SMRT bus driver fined $2,500 for injuring 14 people through negligent driving
Subramaniam Kandiappan was fined $2,500 and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for two years. ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Published
Nov 30, 2017, 5:37 pm SGT
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Shaffiq Idris Alkhatib
SINGAPORE - Fourteen people were injured when an SMRT bus driver failed to keep a proper lookout and hit another SMRT bus, which had come to a stop at a bus stop.
On Thursday (Nov 30), Malaysian Subramaniam Kandiappan, 47, was fined $2,500 and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for two years.
The Singapore permanent resident had pleaded guilty three weeks ago to causing hurt to passengers by negligent driving on Jan 25, 2016.
Subramaniam was driving service 858 in the left lane of Lentor Avenue behind SMRT bus service 854, driven by Mr Teo Ser Hian, 66.
The distance between the two buses was about a car's length when Mr Teo stopped.
Subramaniam applied his foot brake but it was too late. Having failed to keep a safe stopping distance, he could not prevent his vehicle from hitting the back of the other bus.
The 14 injured passengers, aged between 22 and 69 years, were taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.
Six had been on Subramaniam's bus and eight in Mr Teo's. Two of the 14 passengers had to be hospitalised.
One of them, Mr Ricky Lam Koon Chow, 67, suffered injuries including a chipped tooth, neck pain and a tear to his left rotator cuff.
Ms Khoo Wai Yue, 51, was admitted for a night for a neck sprain.
The other 12 passengers suffered injuries such as bruises and abrasions.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Si En said: "Due to the accident, the rear portion of bus 854 was badly crumpled whereas the front portion of bus 858 was badly crumpled and its windscreen was shattered... There was no mechanical fault in either bus."
Responding to queries from The Straits Times, SMRT said it was very sorry for the accident and a detailed review had been carried out. It added that Subramaniam had been reassigned to administrative duties.
SMRT's vice-president of corporate communications Patrick Nathan said: "The safety of our passengers is the top priority. We monitor closely the driving behaviour of our bus captains and work with each one of them to improve their driving skills and service standards.
"Our training programmes are individually customised to each bus captain's needs, and include a combination of classroom, simulator and driving sessions on the road."
For causing hurt by performing a negligent act, Subramaniam could have been jailed for up to six months and fined up to $2,500.
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3. SECURITY GUARD
https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...-12-months-waving-chopper-and-knife-policemen
Former security guard jailed 12 months for waving chopper and knife at policemen
By Wong Pei Ting
Published 21 February, 2018
SINGAPORE — A father-of-four who brandished a chopper and a knife at police officers was sentenced to 12 months’ jail on Wednesday (Feb 21).
On August 17 last year, police were summoned to former security guard Ganesan Alagappan’s Jurong West flat by his wife after he broke a domestic exclusion order restricting him from entering the master bedroom of their home.
Alagappan, 47, who was fighting his wife for custody of their four children, had brandished the weapons at two policemen who arrived to conduct investigations at the divorcing couple’s house, and uttered in Tamil: “You have gun. I have knife. I can do something with this knife.”
A Singaporean permanent resident who hails from India, Alagappan pleaded guilty to three charges earlier this month.
The charges were for committing criminal intimidation by holding up the knives in his kitchen, using criminal force against a public servant by using his hands to forcefully slap away the revolver that was pointed at him, and attempting to voluntarily cause hurt to a police officer by swinging a plastic box at the officer in his living room.
Four other charges were taken into consideration for the purposes of sentencing on Wednesday. Two charges were for an incident on March 14 last year, when he hit his son, who was protected by a personal protection order, on the forearm with a spanner.
Alagappan’s altercations with the police last August escalated from two calls his wife, Ms Ganesan Kalaimani, 39, made to the police – one at 8.45am when she told the police her husband was “giving (her) problems”, and another at 11am because he stepped inside the master bedroom to take photos.
Sergeant Kumaraval Ananthan and Corporal Kor Zhe Ming, a full-time National Service police officer, attended to the family dispute both times at their flat in Block 156 Yung Loh Road.
Twenty minutes after the police arrived for the second time, Alagappan got impatient and attempted to leave the flat, as he said he had a family court appointment.
However, the officers did not allow him to leave the flat. They explained that they had to carry out preliminary investigations as a police report had just been lodged and the couple was giving conflicting accounts.
After failing to push aside a police officer who was standing in the doorway, Alagappan rushed towards a plastic box on the floor, picked it up and attempted to swing it at Mr Kumaraval.
Alagappan then went to the kitchen and picked up a 30cm-long chopper and a 21cm-long kitchen knife. This prompted the policemen to draw their weapons as they warned him to calm down, and to put away his weapons.
Alagappan obliged, forcefully throwing the knives onto the kitchen countertop. But as he was walking out of the kitchen, he used his hands to slap away the revolver Mr Kor was pointing at him.
Mr Kumaraval discharged his taser twice to subdue him, before they could get him to comply with the investigations.
Seeking a lighter sentence for her client, Alagappan’s lawyer Bernice Leong Huiqi pointed to his “unique state of mind” when his offences were committed.
She said that Alagappan was “unusually emotionally charged on the day of the offence”, which was due to the “undeniable” animosity between him and his wife.
He was also anxious to attend a case conference at the Family Justice Courts that day as he had missed a court appointment once, lending their child custody case in his wife’s favour, she added.
Alagappan’s 12-month jail sentence was backdated to August 19 last year, the day he was remanded.
4. TOILET CLEANER
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/drunk-man-trapped-woman-bus-seat-molested-jailed-10-weeks-084536385.html
Drunk man who trapped woman in bus seat, molested her jailed 10 weeks
Wan Ting Koh
Reporter
Yahoo News Singapore 4 December 2018
While on a bus to Tuas Checkpoint, he harassed the woman seated next to him by caressing her arm and uttering vulgarities to her in Hokkien and Tamil.
When the woman tried to move away from him, the drunken man then blocked her way and continued to touch her.
For his actions, 50-year-old Kajayendran Krishnan was jailed 10 weeks after he pleaded guilty to one count of insulting the 44-year-old Malaysian woman’s modesty and one count of molesting her.
Another count of molest was taken into consideration for his sentencing.
Kajayendran, a Malaysian citizen and Singapore permanent resident, was working as a cleaner for SMRT at the time of the offences.
Speaking through a translator, he said he had been fired since being charged over the incident.
Trapped victim on bus
According to court documents the woman boarded the bus from Boon Lay sometime between 6pm and 7pm on 7 May. She sat in the bus’ last row, next to the window.
A few minutes later, Kajayendran boarded the same bus and sat on her right. As the bus drove along Boon Lay Way, he caressed the woman’s right arm.
The woman told Kajayendran to stop touching her but he persisted. Kajayendran then uttered to her the word “sarakku” (a Tamil term for “hot chick”) as well as other vulgarities in Tamil and Hokkien.
The woman tried to leave her seat but Kajayendran blocked her path by extending his legs. After trapping the woman, Kajayendran then caressed and grabbed her right arm.
Outraged by Kajayendran’s actions, the woman approached an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer when the bus reached Tuas Checkpoint. The police were then called.
Next time you’re drunk, don’t take the bus: judge
Deputy Public Prosecutor Mark Yeo sought a jail term for Kajayendran, whom he said had wrongfully restrained the woman while aboard public transport. He left the length of the jail term up to the court.
In mitigation, Kajayendran said he had lost his job as a result of his actions.
“I’m sorry for what I’ve done. I seek forgiveness and apologise to the victim through the court for my actions,” he said. He admitted that he had “personal problems” and to having been drunk at the time of the offences.
District Judge Mathew Joseph pointed out that Kajayendran had sought to “wiggle out of taking responsibility” for his actions by first denying his offences. He only pleaded guilty after the prosecution said it had video footage of the incident.
The judge said that no women should have to “look around her to see if she’ll be molested by anyone” while aboard public transport.
“Let me suggest to you that the next time you are drunk, you don’t take the bus. You walk home. Lest you get into any mischief,” he added.
5. JOBLESS
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...upermarket-cashier-sentenced-to-jail-10504818
Jobless man who molested supermarket cashier sentenced to jail
06 Jul 2018 12:44PM
SINGAPORE: He was visiting a supermarket in Bukit Batok on Dec 3, 2016, when he began chatting up a cashier.
When she did not entertain him, Rasu Panchanathan, a 46-year-old Permanent Resident, followed the Myanmar national around the store while she went about her duties.
Less than an hour later, the cashier went out of the supermarket to throw some rubbish away.
Rasu, who was unemployed at the time, accosted the employee while she was returning to the supermarket. He reached out with his left hand and grabbed her breast.
Shocked, the cashier, who was not named due to a gag order, pushed his hand away.
At this time, a man who lived nearby happened to walk past and saw the altercation between the pair. The cashier sought help from him, while another person called the police.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Asoka Markandu asked for six months' jail, saying that the victim was a foreigner and that the act was premeditated, with intentional use of criminal force.
District Judge Edgar Foo sentenced Rasu to six months' jail on Friday (Jul 6).
For outraging the victim's modesty, Rasu could have jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or any combination of the three punishments.
Source: CNA/ll
6. UNEMPLOYED
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...olested-woman-on-mrt-train-by-rubbing-against
9 weeks' jail for man who molested woman on MRT train by rubbing against her
An unemployed man was jailed for nine weeks for molesting a woman on board an MRT train. PHOTO: ST FILE
Published
Jun 10, 2016, 12:08 pm SGT
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Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - An unemployed man was jailed for nine weeks on Friday (June 10) for molesting a woman on board an MRT train.
Indian national Godiyal Pramod, 37, who is a Singapore permanent resident, pleaded guilty to standing behind and rubbing himself repeatedly against a 21-year-old woman on the train travelling from City Hall to Bugis MRT station on May 4 last year.
A court heard that the woman boarded the train at City Hall at about 6pm that day and was going to meet her boyfriend at Bugis.
As the train was crowded, she stood close to the middle of the cabin. Pramod positioned himself behind her.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Soo Tet said that initially, the woman did not realise that the contact between Pramod and her was deliberate.
She moved towards the train doors to distance herself but Pramod followed and kept rubbing himself against her buttocks.
She could see that it was Pramod through the reflection in the glass panels of the train doors.
When the train arrived at the Bugis MRT station, she alighted, followed by Pramod. She later told her boyfriend about the incident and they reported it to the SMRT staff.
Pramod's lawyer Amarjit Singh Sidhu said in mitigation that his client's wife and his young daughter have been receiving financial help from the Ministry of Social and Family Development since May this year.
He said Pramod is deeply remorseful and felt that he has let his family, friends and most importantly, himself, down.
A second similar charge was taken into consideration in sentencing.
Pramod could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or received any combined punishment.
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Stall assistant jailed for claiming in PR application that adopted children were his own
Published
Dec 8, 2017, 2:09 pm SGT
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Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - In an application for permanent residence status for three children, a stall assistant declared that they were his by marriage. In fact, they had all been adopted by him.
Indian national Noor Shahul Hamid Noorsulthan, 44, who is a Singapore permanent resident, was jailed for two weeks on Friday (Dec 8) for making false statements in the application on Oct 14, 2008.
The offence came to light only many years later. It turned out that the three were Noorsulthan's sister's children whom he had adopted. Two of them - now men aged 23 and 21 - have since served national service. The third is a girl aged 14.
The court heard that between 2003 and 2008, while in India, Noorsulthan decided to apply for a work pass to work in Singapore. He also decided to bring his family members here and apply for PR status for all of them, These included his three adopted children. He and his wife have a daughter, now 18.
He engaged an agent in India and procured documents for the purpose of applying for PR status for himself, his wife and the four children.
He arrived in Singapore and was issued an S pass to work as a chef.
On June 11, 2008, he submitted the forms at the Permanent Resident Services Centre in Kallang Road, applying for PR status for himself, his wife and the four children.
He claimed in the form that all the children were his, by his current marriage.
The application was approved in August the same year. He and his family members were subsequently granted PR status.
But when the Permanent Resident Services Centre checked with the Singapore embassy in Chennai, India, it was discovered that the birth certificates of three of the children were not authentic.
Noorsulthan was arrested on Aug 15 this year.
Pleading for leniency, his lawyer Rajan Supramaniam said his client was remorseful and had learnt his lesson.
"A severe punishment would also throw the accused in greater hardship in view of his job status and financial position which is very much needed to support his family and all his children,'' he said.
Noorsulthan could have been fined up to $4,000 and/or jailed for up to 12 months.
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2. BUS DRIVER
www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/smrt-bus-driver-fined-2500-for-injuring-14-people-due-to-negligent-driving
SMRT bus driver fined $2,500 for injuring 14 people through negligent driving
Subramaniam Kandiappan was fined $2,500 and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for two years. ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW
Published
Nov 30, 2017, 5:37 pm SGT
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Shaffiq Idris Alkhatib
SINGAPORE - Fourteen people were injured when an SMRT bus driver failed to keep a proper lookout and hit another SMRT bus, which had come to a stop at a bus stop.
On Thursday (Nov 30), Malaysian Subramaniam Kandiappan, 47, was fined $2,500 and disqualified from driving all classes of vehicles for two years.
The Singapore permanent resident had pleaded guilty three weeks ago to causing hurt to passengers by negligent driving on Jan 25, 2016.
Subramaniam was driving service 858 in the left lane of Lentor Avenue behind SMRT bus service 854, driven by Mr Teo Ser Hian, 66.
The distance between the two buses was about a car's length when Mr Teo stopped.
Subramaniam applied his foot brake but it was too late. Having failed to keep a safe stopping distance, he could not prevent his vehicle from hitting the back of the other bus.
The 14 injured passengers, aged between 22 and 69 years, were taken to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.
Six had been on Subramaniam's bus and eight in Mr Teo's. Two of the 14 passengers had to be hospitalised.
One of them, Mr Ricky Lam Koon Chow, 67, suffered injuries including a chipped tooth, neck pain and a tear to his left rotator cuff.
Ms Khoo Wai Yue, 51, was admitted for a night for a neck sprain.
The other 12 passengers suffered injuries such as bruises and abrasions.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Si En said: "Due to the accident, the rear portion of bus 854 was badly crumpled whereas the front portion of bus 858 was badly crumpled and its windscreen was shattered... There was no mechanical fault in either bus."
Responding to queries from The Straits Times, SMRT said it was very sorry for the accident and a detailed review had been carried out. It added that Subramaniam had been reassigned to administrative duties.
SMRT's vice-president of corporate communications Patrick Nathan said: "The safety of our passengers is the top priority. We monitor closely the driving behaviour of our bus captains and work with each one of them to improve their driving skills and service standards.
"Our training programmes are individually customised to each bus captain's needs, and include a combination of classroom, simulator and driving sessions on the road."
For causing hurt by performing a negligent act, Subramaniam could have been jailed for up to six months and fined up to $2,500.
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3. SECURITY GUARD
https://www.todayonline.com/singapo...-12-months-waving-chopper-and-knife-policemen
Former security guard jailed 12 months for waving chopper and knife at policemen
By Wong Pei Ting
Published 21 February, 2018
SINGAPORE — A father-of-four who brandished a chopper and a knife at police officers was sentenced to 12 months’ jail on Wednesday (Feb 21).
On August 17 last year, police were summoned to former security guard Ganesan Alagappan’s Jurong West flat by his wife after he broke a domestic exclusion order restricting him from entering the master bedroom of their home.
Alagappan, 47, who was fighting his wife for custody of their four children, had brandished the weapons at two policemen who arrived to conduct investigations at the divorcing couple’s house, and uttered in Tamil: “You have gun. I have knife. I can do something with this knife.”
A Singaporean permanent resident who hails from India, Alagappan pleaded guilty to three charges earlier this month.
The charges were for committing criminal intimidation by holding up the knives in his kitchen, using criminal force against a public servant by using his hands to forcefully slap away the revolver that was pointed at him, and attempting to voluntarily cause hurt to a police officer by swinging a plastic box at the officer in his living room.
Four other charges were taken into consideration for the purposes of sentencing on Wednesday. Two charges were for an incident on March 14 last year, when he hit his son, who was protected by a personal protection order, on the forearm with a spanner.
Alagappan’s altercations with the police last August escalated from two calls his wife, Ms Ganesan Kalaimani, 39, made to the police – one at 8.45am when she told the police her husband was “giving (her) problems”, and another at 11am because he stepped inside the master bedroom to take photos.
Sergeant Kumaraval Ananthan and Corporal Kor Zhe Ming, a full-time National Service police officer, attended to the family dispute both times at their flat in Block 156 Yung Loh Road.
Twenty minutes after the police arrived for the second time, Alagappan got impatient and attempted to leave the flat, as he said he had a family court appointment.
However, the officers did not allow him to leave the flat. They explained that they had to carry out preliminary investigations as a police report had just been lodged and the couple was giving conflicting accounts.
After failing to push aside a police officer who was standing in the doorway, Alagappan rushed towards a plastic box on the floor, picked it up and attempted to swing it at Mr Kumaraval.
Alagappan then went to the kitchen and picked up a 30cm-long chopper and a 21cm-long kitchen knife. This prompted the policemen to draw their weapons as they warned him to calm down, and to put away his weapons.
Alagappan obliged, forcefully throwing the knives onto the kitchen countertop. But as he was walking out of the kitchen, he used his hands to slap away the revolver Mr Kor was pointing at him.
Mr Kumaraval discharged his taser twice to subdue him, before they could get him to comply with the investigations.
Seeking a lighter sentence for her client, Alagappan’s lawyer Bernice Leong Huiqi pointed to his “unique state of mind” when his offences were committed.
She said that Alagappan was “unusually emotionally charged on the day of the offence”, which was due to the “undeniable” animosity between him and his wife.
He was also anxious to attend a case conference at the Family Justice Courts that day as he had missed a court appointment once, lending their child custody case in his wife’s favour, she added.
Alagappan’s 12-month jail sentence was backdated to August 19 last year, the day he was remanded.
4. TOILET CLEANER
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/drunk-man-trapped-woman-bus-seat-molested-jailed-10-weeks-084536385.html
Drunk man who trapped woman in bus seat, molested her jailed 10 weeks
Wan Ting Koh
Reporter
Yahoo News Singapore 4 December 2018
While on a bus to Tuas Checkpoint, he harassed the woman seated next to him by caressing her arm and uttering vulgarities to her in Hokkien and Tamil.
When the woman tried to move away from him, the drunken man then blocked her way and continued to touch her.
For his actions, 50-year-old Kajayendran Krishnan was jailed 10 weeks after he pleaded guilty to one count of insulting the 44-year-old Malaysian woman’s modesty and one count of molesting her.
Another count of molest was taken into consideration for his sentencing.
Kajayendran, a Malaysian citizen and Singapore permanent resident, was working as a cleaner for SMRT at the time of the offences.
Speaking through a translator, he said he had been fired since being charged over the incident.
Trapped victim on bus
According to court documents the woman boarded the bus from Boon Lay sometime between 6pm and 7pm on 7 May. She sat in the bus’ last row, next to the window.
A few minutes later, Kajayendran boarded the same bus and sat on her right. As the bus drove along Boon Lay Way, he caressed the woman’s right arm.
The woman told Kajayendran to stop touching her but he persisted. Kajayendran then uttered to her the word “sarakku” (a Tamil term for “hot chick”) as well as other vulgarities in Tamil and Hokkien.
The woman tried to leave her seat but Kajayendran blocked her path by extending his legs. After trapping the woman, Kajayendran then caressed and grabbed her right arm.
Outraged by Kajayendran’s actions, the woman approached an Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officer when the bus reached Tuas Checkpoint. The police were then called.
Next time you’re drunk, don’t take the bus: judge
Deputy Public Prosecutor Mark Yeo sought a jail term for Kajayendran, whom he said had wrongfully restrained the woman while aboard public transport. He left the length of the jail term up to the court.
In mitigation, Kajayendran said he had lost his job as a result of his actions.
“I’m sorry for what I’ve done. I seek forgiveness and apologise to the victim through the court for my actions,” he said. He admitted that he had “personal problems” and to having been drunk at the time of the offences.
District Judge Mathew Joseph pointed out that Kajayendran had sought to “wiggle out of taking responsibility” for his actions by first denying his offences. He only pleaded guilty after the prosecution said it had video footage of the incident.
The judge said that no women should have to “look around her to see if she’ll be molested by anyone” while aboard public transport.
“Let me suggest to you that the next time you are drunk, you don’t take the bus. You walk home. Lest you get into any mischief,” he added.
5. JOBLESS
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/new...upermarket-cashier-sentenced-to-jail-10504818
Jobless man who molested supermarket cashier sentenced to jail
06 Jul 2018 12:44PM
SINGAPORE: He was visiting a supermarket in Bukit Batok on Dec 3, 2016, when he began chatting up a cashier.
When she did not entertain him, Rasu Panchanathan, a 46-year-old Permanent Resident, followed the Myanmar national around the store while she went about her duties.
Less than an hour later, the cashier went out of the supermarket to throw some rubbish away.
Rasu, who was unemployed at the time, accosted the employee while she was returning to the supermarket. He reached out with his left hand and grabbed her breast.
Shocked, the cashier, who was not named due to a gag order, pushed his hand away.
At this time, a man who lived nearby happened to walk past and saw the altercation between the pair. The cashier sought help from him, while another person called the police.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Asoka Markandu asked for six months' jail, saying that the victim was a foreigner and that the act was premeditated, with intentional use of criminal force.
District Judge Edgar Foo sentenced Rasu to six months' jail on Friday (Jul 6).
For outraging the victim's modesty, Rasu could have jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or any combination of the three punishments.
Source: CNA/ll
6. UNEMPLOYED
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...olested-woman-on-mrt-train-by-rubbing-against
9 weeks' jail for man who molested woman on MRT train by rubbing against her
An unemployed man was jailed for nine weeks for molesting a woman on board an MRT train. PHOTO: ST FILE
Published
Jun 10, 2016, 12:08 pm SGT
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Elena Chong
Court Correspondent
SINGAPORE - An unemployed man was jailed for nine weeks on Friday (June 10) for molesting a woman on board an MRT train.
Indian national Godiyal Pramod, 37, who is a Singapore permanent resident, pleaded guilty to standing behind and rubbing himself repeatedly against a 21-year-old woman on the train travelling from City Hall to Bugis MRT station on May 4 last year.
A court heard that the woman boarded the train at City Hall at about 6pm that day and was going to meet her boyfriend at Bugis.
As the train was crowded, she stood close to the middle of the cabin. Pramod positioned himself behind her.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Tan Soo Tet said that initially, the woman did not realise that the contact between Pramod and her was deliberate.
She moved towards the train doors to distance herself but Pramod followed and kept rubbing himself against her buttocks.
She could see that it was Pramod through the reflection in the glass panels of the train doors.
When the train arrived at the Bugis MRT station, she alighted, followed by Pramod. She later told her boyfriend about the incident and they reported it to the SMRT staff.
Pramod's lawyer Amarjit Singh Sidhu said in mitigation that his client's wife and his young daughter have been receiving financial help from the Ministry of Social and Family Development since May this year.
He said Pramod is deeply remorseful and felt that he has let his family, friends and most importantly, himself, down.
A second similar charge was taken into consideration in sentencing.
Pramod could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or received any combined punishment.
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