PUBLIC PROSECUTOR v Seet Poh Jing

Case Significance

Public Prosecutor v Seet Poh Jing [2024] SGHC 95 was a reserved judgment of the General Division of the High Court of Singapore delivered on 2 April 2024 by See Kee Oon JAD, in Criminal Case No 47 of 2022, following trial hearings across September and November 2022 and various dates in 2023. The accused, Seet Poh Jing, claimed trial to a charge of having in his possession for the purpose of trafficking not less than 4,509.2g of cannabis mixture, an offence under s 5(1)(a) read with s 5(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act (Cap 185, 2008 Rev Ed) ("MDA") and punishable under s 33(1) of the MDA. According to the charge, the accused was alleged to have trafficked in the drugs on 28 June 2018 at about 5.20pm, inside a car bearing Singapore registration number SJP9770Z parked at the car park of Block 857 Tampines Street 83. The five blocks of vegetable matter were analysed and found to contain not less than 1,894.7g of cannabis and not less than 2,614.5g of fragmented vegetable matter containing cannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinol, together constituting cannabis mixture as defined in s 2 of the MDA. The catchwords record that the case concerned a statutory offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act. The prosecution was conducted by the Attorney-General's Chambers, while the accused was represented by Andre Jumabhoy LLC and Sterling Law Corporation.