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Foreigner forged MOM letters, cheated maid of over $2k with promise of S’pore jobs for her relatives​

The court heard that Indian national Charanjeet Singh and the victim, a 29-year-old Indian domestic worker, met in October 2024 at a temple in Singapore.

Summary

• Indian national Charanjeet Singh, 20, jailed 13 weeks for swindling a domestic worker of $2,135 by falsely promising jobs for her relatives.
• Singh used forged MOM documents to deceive the victim, claiming payments were for work pass applications, and then became uncontactable after full payment.
• The judge highlighted the impact on the domestic worker and the erosion of public trust due to the forgeries.

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Jul 29, 2025

SINGAPORE – Tricking a domestic worker into thinking he could help her relatives secure jobs in Singapore, a foreigner swindled her of more than $2,000 to pay for their purported work pass applications.

To keep up the ruse, Indian national Charanjeet Singh even sent the victim forged Ministry of Manpower (MOM) documents.

On July 29, Singh, 20, was sentenced to 13 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to a cheating offence and two charges of using a forged document. Three other charges were taken into consideration for his sentence.


The court heard that Singh and the victim, a 29-year-old Indian domestic worker, met in October 2024 at a temple in Singapore.

Singh told her he had been working in Singapore for several years and offered to help her land a job with his employer, a cleaning services company.

In reality, that was his former co-tenant’s company. Singh was unemployed and staying in Singapore on a special pass after his employment with another firm had been terminated over salary disputes.

As the victim had one year remaining on her employment contract as a domestic worker, she asked if Singh could arrange for jobs in Singapore for her relatives in India instead.

Singh agreed and requested 250,000 Indian rupees (S$3,700) for each applicant, adding that the purported jobs involved packing and cleaning.

To assure the victim, he sent video recordings purportedly showing himself at work and the accommodation provided by the company.

The victim then asked Singh to proceed with job applications for three of her relatives, and paid him $2,135 between Nov 17 and Dec 1, 2024.

Singh sent the victim several forged letters from MOM over the next two months, including supposed in-principle approvals for her relatives’ work permits.

He did so by altering an original document he had obtained from his former co-tenant without the latter’s knowledge or consent.

The victim then asked her employer for help to verify one of the applications on MOM’s website.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Maximilian Chew said: “When the victim discovered that there was no such application and asked the accused about it, the accused lied to the victim that the approval was not shown on the website as full payment had not been made.

“The accused assured the victim that he would give her a password to access the information on MOM’s website after full payment was made.”

After the victim made full payment to Singh, he became uncontactable. She lodged a police report on Dec 26, 2024, and Singh was arrested on April 24.

DPP Chew noted that Singh “spun a web of lies” over two months to cheat the victim and asked for him to be jailed for 14 weeks.

Handing down the sentence, District Judge Koh Jiaying said the victim is a foreign domestic worker who would have been more impacted by the loss of money.

The judge also said his act of forging MOM documents could erode public trust in the government.

Singh said through an interpreter during his mitigation that he felt sorry for what he did.

The foreigner, who did not have a lawyer, said: “I’ve done a crime and I hope to be punished... only by being punished will I understand the consequences of my actions.”

 

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Jul 29, 2025, 04:59pm

Woman covers face and flees after Stomper confronts her over alleged illegal food delivery at Tampines McDonald's​

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A man confronted a young woman outside McDonald's at Tampines West over what he believed to be a case of illegal food delivery.

Stomper Manmeet told Stomp that the incident occurred on July 28 at about 6.18pm.

He shared a video of the woman and her bicycle on TikTok.

Manmeet, who is retired and has been doing food delivery part-time, said he noticed the woman arriving on a rented bicycle and parking it at the designated food delivery pickup point.

"I approached her to ask her to park on the opposite side as she was blocking the area meant for delivery riders," he said. "She looked like a foreign customer, and the area was already crowded with bicycles from other delivery platforms.

According to Manmeet, the woman then entered McDonald's and showed a staff member a food delivery order at the rider pickup counter.


"I asked her if she was a customer, and she said she would just collect the order there. I questioned the staff and they confirmed she had shown a food delivery order."

Manmeet said he then asked the woman if she was a student and from India, to which she replied yes. She also told him she was collecting the order for a friend.

"When her order was ready, she took it and went back to her bike," he said. "Before she could leave, I grabbed her handlebar and told her what she was doing was illegal.

"She panicked, said sorry, and eventually left the scene, abandoning her rented bicycle.

"The McDonald's staff later told me it was a Foodpanda delivery order."

Manmeet said he later lodged a police report at Tampines Neighbourhood Police Centre.

He added that he has seen similar cases involving other foreign men and women, but this was the first time he had approached a foreign student.

In response to a Stomp query, the police confirmed a report was lodged.

His video has since garnered over 48,000 views and mixed reactions online.

Stomper Coca, expressed similar concerns to Manmeet: "I feel that this issue of foreigners doing food delivery illegally is getting out of hand. More should be done to contain the problem."

Others, however, criticised Manmeet's actions.

Stomper Joseph said: "This behaviour is deeply disturbing and may constitute harassment. There is no evidence the girl was violating any rules."

He added: "According to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), foreign students holding a valid Student's Pass from approved institutions are allowed to work up to 16 hours per week during school term and full-time during vacation, without a work permit. The student was simply doing her job - legally - and did not deserve to be humiliated or harassed."

However, according to Foodpanda, riders need to be Singaporeans or permanent residents and be at least 18 years old.

In November 2024, four foreigners were charged with working illegally as food delivery riders in Singapore without valid work passes, which carries a fine of up to $20,000, imprisonment of up to two years, or both.

MOM said that it had been engaging the major food delivery platforms to enhance their processes and prevent the misuse of accounts by unauthorised parties, as well as disseminating educational messages to advise riders against allowing foreigners to use or share their food delivery accounts.

 

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Provision shop owner who raped 11-year-old gets more than 14 years’ jail​

The judge rejected Ramalingam’s requests to remove his electronic tag and forgo regular check-ins with the police.

Summary

• Ramalingam Selvasekaran, 58, was sentenced to over 14 years in jail for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in his shop in 2021.
• Despite maintaining innocence, Ramalingam was found guilty of rape and outrage of modesty. Justice Xu found the victim's testimony credible.
• Ramalingam's requests to alter his bail conditions were rejected. He also disputed returning $8 taken from his shop to the victim.

Jul 30, 2025

SINGAPORE - A provision shop owner gave a free drink to an 11-year-old girl who visited his store, and when she returned later that day to buy ice cream, he sexually assaulted her twice.

On July 30, Ramalingam Selvasekaran, 58, was sentenced to 14 years, three months and two weeks’ jail by the High Court.

As he cannot be caned, given that he is above the age of 50, the sentence includes additional jail time in lieu of 15 strokes of the cane.


The Indian national was found guilty of all three charges against him on July 7 – one count of rape and two counts of outrage of modesty – after a trial in which he represented himself.

During sentencing arguments on July 30, Ramalingam maintained his innocence and said he would be appealing against his conviction.

After he was sentenced and granted bail of $80,000 pending appeal, he bargained with the judge regarding his bail conditions.

Justice Aidan Xu rejected Ramalingam’s requests to remove his electronic tag and forgo regular check-ins at the Police Cantonment Complex.

Ramalingam also objected to Deputy Public Prosecutor Susanna Yim’s proposal to return to the girl $8 in cash while the court was determining the fate of various trial exhibits.

“The $8 was taken from my shop,” he said. The judge told the prosecution to look into the matter.

The offences took place between about 4.50pm and about 5.05pm on Oct 28, 2021, at his store in Jurong West.

Ramalingam, who was 55 years old at the time of the offences, was accused by the prosecution of leading the girl to the inner confines of his shop to touch her and make her perform oral sex on him.

Following the assaults, the girl sought help from a passer-by, who called the police.

At the end of the trial, which began on Jan 16, Ramalingam argued that the girl’s testimony should not be believed.

He said it was unbelievable that she would have gone to a stranger for help, when she could have gone to someone she knew.

He argued that it was suspicious that there was no police camera footage of her returning to her home after the incident.


He added that he could not have raped the victim as he was suffering from erectile dysfunction, and noted that his DNA was not found on her body.

In convicting Ramalingam on July 7, Justice Xu said the prosecution’s case has been established beyond a reasonable doubt.

The judge found no significant weaknesses in the girl’s recounting of events.

“The fact that she had not run off after the first act of molest, or that she did not resist the assaults, or inform her grandfather, were all to my mind sufficiently explained, particularly given that she was still young and immature,” he said.

Justice Xu pointed out that in Ramalingam’s earlier statements to the police, he stated he had hugged and kissed the victim and that she had performed oral sex on him.

Ramalingam’s later statements denying the commission of the offences were merely an attempt to resile from what he had admitted, the judge said.

Justice Xu said the absence of camera footage did not undermine her evidence.

While there was no dispute that Ramalingam suffered from erectile dysfunction, the judge said the prosecution’s expert witness gave a cogent explanation that oral rape remained possible.

The absence of Ramalingam’s DNA on the victim was at most neutral, and did not undermine the girl’s evidence that she had been sexually assaulted, said the judge.