Bar owner convicted of raping his 17-year-old worker

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The owner of a bar in Little India has been convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl who worked for him after she ran away from the Singapore Girls’ Home. Raj Kumar Bala, 41, was accused of molesting and raping the victim between the night of Feb 21, 2020, and the early...

The owner of a bar in Little India has been convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl who worked for him after she ran away from the Singapore Girls’ Home.

He indicated that he would plead guilty to the harbouring charge, but contested the rape and molestation charges in a trial that began in August 2023. He claimed that the girl had consented to having sex with him. He ended up having sex with the victim and also engaged in sex acts with another girl – the alleged victim identified as B1 – on the second floor of the unit. The third girl remained on the first floor.

On March 28, Justice Mavis Chionh said the girl’s version of events was corroborated by the two other girls who were present in the condo. Justice Chionh did not find this change of evidence to be detrimental to Raj Kumar. If anything, it made the victim’s account less favourable to herself, said the judge.

 

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