Authorities targeting the Singhs?

[giggity_shit]

This after her brother was cleared for the cashback scam....

SINGAPORE - Of the nearly 200 farms in the Kranji area, hers was the only one prosecuted for failing to run safety checks on building premises, Bollywood Veggies owner Ivy Singh-Lim has claimed.

Did the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) "single out" Bollywood Veggies? Ms Singh-Lim asked this at the start of the trial yesterday.

The former Netball Singapore president, who could be fined up to $40,000 and jailed for up to a year for the offences if her farm is found culpable, also contended that the law requiring owners to conduct such safety checks was "never meant to apply to farms in Kranji".

Defence counsel Engelin Teh told the court that the safety inspections are required only five years after owners obtain temporary occupation permits or certificates of statutory completion.

But like "almost all" the other farms in Kranji, which have structures on their lands without either of these documents, the lawyer said, one of the buildings on Ms Singh-Lim's property was not issued these documents. This meant that the Commissioner of Building Control could not serve notices on them to comply, the Senior Counsel argued.

Disagreeing, BCA senior technician Baliah Pillai said all non-residential buildings are required to undergo inspections.

He added that Bollywood Veggies was first served a notice for inspection of its buildings on April 29, 2008 but it "persisted in not complying", despite three reminder letters.

Why, then, did the notice ask for all buildings on Bollywood Veggies to be inspected - even though one was a house where Ms Singh-Lim lived and another was the workers' quarters, Ms Teh asked.

Mr Pillai's reply: It was a standard letter.

Ms Teh also asked if Mr Pillai was trying to bully Ms Singh-Lim into compliance by "threatening" her with a fine and imprisonment in some of the reminder letters. He disagreed and repeated that this was standard practice.

The hearing continues today.

 

[giggity_shit]

AFTER five years and spending about $1 million in legal fees, lawyer Bachoo Mohan Singh, who was initially convicted of helping a client make a false claim, walked out of court a free man.

In throwing out the conviction, the Court of Appeal gave a landmark ruling in a split decision.

Mr Singh, 61, made legal history as the first person charged in Singapore with making a false claim, an offence that has been in force for over a century; he is also the first lawyer in Commonwealth countries to be convicted of such an offence.

After the decision, the biggest reaction came not from the lawyer of 36 years' standing, but his sister, former Netball Singapore president Ivy Singh-Lim.

She proclaimed she loved her country and wanted to know how much State funds have been spent on her brother's case.

Mr Singh's case arose from a 2003 property deal involving a flat buyer and seller who were in a purported cashhback scheme in which an inflated sale price is declared to the HDB.

 

[MarrickG]

Why would the singhs be targetted unless they are against the Authorities?

There are Chinese being prosecuted in court everyday, does it mean the Chinese are being targetted for all these years?

 

[zuoom]

her Bollywood Veggies was already in the news before her brother got cleared no?

 

[Watchman]

When you farking nick-pick others , it will somehow come back to you .

Life is a cycle .

No exemption for singhs !

 

[giggity_shit]

Why would the singhs be targetted unless they are against the Authorities?

There are Chinese being prosecuted in court everyday, does it mean the Chinese are being targetted for all these years?

Not targeting the Singh community, but his brother and sister duo whose surname is Singh.

 

[giggity_shit]

When you farking nick-pick others , it will somehow come back to you .

Life is a cycle .

No exemption for singhs !

That doesn't make any sense. What "nick-pick" did they commit?

 

[KuanTi01]

Please lah! The authorities only target the person committing the offence, race not included. Of course, one'll be targetted if one joins the opposition! No mercy!

 

[BuiKia]

Wah Lao! You know how many fellow by the surname Tans are being charged in court daily too? Are the Lees trying to get rid of the Tans?

I know a family of many siblings whereby 5 are charged in court:

1) 1st charged for rape.
2) 2nd charged for murder
3) 3rd charged for Loan Shark
4) 4th charged for Drugs
5) 5th charged for assault.
6) One of their children is charged for sexual abuse.

So they are also being targetted?

Not targeting the Singh community, but his brother and sister duo whose surname is Singh.

 

[soIsee]

Moto of this place : No one can be fire brand except LKY, fire brand against the rulers, targeteed, so you may be.

Morons can care to disagree with me but then, that is why they're morons!

 

[cheekenpie]

"Why would i target the singhs? Some of my best friend ar esingh. Just ask Davinder."​

 

[giggity_shit]

Wah Lao! You know how many fellow by the surname Tans are being charged in court daily too? Are the Lees trying to get rid of the Tans?

I know a family of many siblings whereby 5 are charged in court:

1) 1st charged for rape.
2) 2nd charged for murder
3) 3rd charged for Loan Shark
4) 4th charged for Drugs
5) 5th charged for assault.
6) One of their children is charged for sexual abuse.

So they are also being targetted?

MarrickG
Re: Authorities targeting the Singhs?
Why would the singhs be targetted unless they are against the Authorities?

There are Chinese being prosecuted in court everyday, does it mean the Chinese are being targetted for all these years?

Sigh.... Perhaps i should change the title of the thread so that i will not confuse the two of you.

My premise is that the authorities seem bent on getting something to stick on Ivy and Bachoo singh. Clearer now??

Are you two clones?

 

[po2wq]

Authorities targeting the Singhs? ...

wen wud dey act on wksingh? ...

 

[Velma]

Singh is king.

 

[halsey02]

I am just curious, Singh is usually the family name plus the village they come from for the males, eg Singh Oxley. Why, is her name Ivy Singh? Female of her kind, should be Kaur right? & Ivy...ok! Gurmit Singh is a Christian..but IVy Singh? - Lim