Tag Archives: Indian National

In one of the most bizarre cases involving a foreign talent, an Indian national, Palaniappan Ramanathan,was sentenced to four weeks in jail for trying to bribe a Certis Cisco officer with an offer of $10, just so he could get away with urinating in a public place.

A 27 year-old private student Verma Gaurav forcefully restrained a 26 year-old maid at a Housing & Development Board (HDB) block on 24 February 2017 and molested her the next day.

A 31 year-old man was arrested after issuing loans of up to about $26,000 to other foreign nationals in Singapore. He demanded a 20% monthly interest on these loans.

An Indian national, who was in Singapore with his wife to seek medical treatment for his cancer-stricken wife, sexually assaulted the private nurse hired to care for her instead, after lamenting that he had not had sex with his spouse in recent months because of her illness.

A lorry driver have been sentenced to four weeks jail and banned from driving for five years for causing the death of Mr Zhu Jinfu, 54, in Yishun Ring Road on Aug 31 last year. The lorry driver, Indian National Thanabal Balachandar, 25, was driving out of a work site at a junior college when he failed to stop and crashed into the victim who was riding a power-assisted bicycle.

Hanafiah was part of group of three that included his cousin Mohamad Hafiz Juma'at, 37 and uncle, Sani Chabar, 49, who robbed an Indian national of his $350 mobile phone last year. Hanafiah was also found with a knuckleduster at the Police Cantonment Complex on June 7 last year. Sani had gone to Hafiz's flat in Dec last year, complaining about having no mobile phone. The two of them then met Hanafiah, and a plan was hatched by the trio to rob someone of his mobile phone. The unfortunate victim, Mr Muthu Suresh, 33, was spotted by the trio using his Asus Zenfone 2 mobile phone at a fitness corner near Block 324 Tah Ching Road in Taman Jurong and they decided to rob him. Sani and Hafiz had been dealt with by the courts earlier. Hanafiah is currently out on bail as his mother has to go for medical checkups. He will surrender in court on July 21.