<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%"><TBODY><TR>Oct 2, 2009
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>NS man faked leave, jailed <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Selina Lum
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->CLAIMING that his grandfather had died in Malaysia, a police national serviceman took urgent leave for two days to attend a prayer session there - but he was in Singapore the whole time.
Later, when his supervisor asked for his passport to confirm that he was in Malaysia, Mohamad Hamzah Mohamad Hanifah altered the date stamp in the document.
Hamzah had indeed gone to Malaysia on July 5, 2008 and returned the next day. But he had asked for leave for July 6 and 7.
So he used a marker pen to change the return date stamp from '6' to '7', creating the impression that he returned that day.
At the same time he handed in the tampered passport, Hamzah also submitted a forged medical certificate, to cover an earlier absence from duty.
His supervisor felt the documents were suspect and grilled him. Hamzah, 20, broke down and confessed that he had forged them.
In July, a district court jailed Hamzah for a total of 12 weeks for the two forgery charges and fined him $1,000 on a third absent-without-leave charge.
Hamzah, who has finished his jail term and paid the fine, is still serving NS.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>NS man faked leave, jailed <!--10 min-->
</TR><!-- headline one : end --><!-- Author --><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Selina Lum
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"-->CLAIMING that his grandfather had died in Malaysia, a police national serviceman took urgent leave for two days to attend a prayer session there - but he was in Singapore the whole time.
Later, when his supervisor asked for his passport to confirm that he was in Malaysia, Mohamad Hamzah Mohamad Hanifah altered the date stamp in the document.
Hamzah had indeed gone to Malaysia on July 5, 2008 and returned the next day. But he had asked for leave for July 6 and 7.
So he used a marker pen to change the return date stamp from '6' to '7', creating the impression that he returned that day.
At the same time he handed in the tampered passport, Hamzah also submitted a forged medical certificate, to cover an earlier absence from duty.
His supervisor felt the documents were suspect and grilled him. Hamzah, 20, broke down and confessed that he had forged them.
In July, a district court jailed Hamzah for a total of 12 weeks for the two forgery charges and fined him $1,000 on a third absent-without-leave charge.
Hamzah, who has finished his jail term and paid the fine, is still serving NS.
Read the full story in Saturday's edition of The Straits Times.
