PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Raj Kumar S/O Bala
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Public Prosecutor v Raj Kumar s/o Bala [2024] SGHC 265 was a Grounds of Decision delivered by Mavis Chionh Sze Chyi J in the General Division of the High Court on 21 October 2024 in Criminal Case No 25 of 2023. The accused faced a total of 25 charges and was tried on two of them: one count of outrage of modesty under s 354(1) of the Penal Code (Cap 224, 2008 Rev Ed) and one count of rape under s 375(1)(a) punishable under s 375(2) of the Penal Code. Both charges concerned the same complainant, who was 17 years old at the time of the alleged offences in February 2020. The offences were alleged to have occurred between 11.52pm on 21 February 2020 and the early morning of 22 February 2020 at 883 North Bridge Road, Southbank Condominium, Singapore.
Summary
The accused faced a total of 25 charges and was tried on two of them: one count of outrage of modesty under s 354(1) of the Penal Code and one count of rape under s 375(1)(a) of the Penal Code, both concerning the same complainant who was 17 years old at the time of the alleged offences in February 2020; a third charge under the Children and Young Persons Act was also proceeded on. The matter concerned whether the prosecution had proved the charges relating to the complainant. The court imposed a global sentence of 13 years and four weeks' imprisonment and nine strokes of the cane, ordering the sentences for the rape and the Children and Young Persons Act offence to run consecutively and the outrage of modesty sentence to run concurrently.
What charges were tried in Public Prosecutor v Raj Kumar s/o Bala [2024] SGHC 265?
Of 25 charges the accused faced, two were tried before Mavis Chionh Sze Chyi J: one count of outrage of modesty under s 354(1) of the Penal Code and one count of rape under s 375(1)(a) punishable under s 375(2). Both concerned the same 17-year-old complainant.
When and where did the alleged offences in Raj Kumar s/o Bala take place?
The alleged offences were said to have occurred sometime between 11.52pm on 21 February 2020 and the early morning of 22 February 2020 at 883 North Bridge Road, Southbank Condominium, Singapore. The complainant was 17 years old at the time.
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