SINGAPORE - Two Singapore Civil Defence Force officers were sentenced to ten weeks imprisonment on Tuesday over their involvement in a 2018 ragging incident that led to the death of a full-time national serviceman .
Following a trial, Nazhan Mohamed Nazi, 42, was sentenced to ten weeks jail after he was found guilty last month of acting negligently by failing to prevent his subordinates from carrying out the ragging activity on the night of May 13, 2018.His colleague, Kenneth Chong Chee Boon, 40, who was the commander, was given a similar sentence on Tuesday.Nazhan's lawyer Mr Singa Retnam told the court that his client intends to appeal against his conviction and sentence.
Nur Fatwa was sentenced to a year and four week's jail in October 2018 after he admitted to the fatal push. Nazhan and Chong were originally charged with intentionally aiding a group of SCDF servicemen to cause grievous hurt to Cpl Kok via a rash act endangering human life.But after an earlier trial, Senior District Judge Ong Hian Sun reduced their charges to the current one - that of performing a negligent act by failing to prevent their subordinates from carrying out the ragging activity on May 13, 2018.
The judge had also said that Chong and Nazhan were not present at the well, adding that the pair did not have the opportunity to intervene or take preventive action at the time.The judge had said that Chong and Nazhan were obliged to ensure Cpl Kok's life was not endangered while he was on duty.
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