SINGAPORE – Following an argument with a man in a taxi, Sakthivel Sivasurian got into an altercation with him after they alighted and punched him. The victim, Mr Manjunatha Louis Ravi, fell and died in hospital five days later from neck and head injuries in July 2020.
According to court documents, District Judge James Elisha Lee said he accepted the evidence from Sakthivel’s lawyer Vaswani Sanjiv that Mr Manjunatha had been dropped twice when Sakthivel and a woman were trying to lift him up after he had fallen to the ground. But the judge added: “While the dropping and manhandling of the victim after the fall may have aggravated his initial injury, the situation had arisen purely as a result of the fall. If not for the fall, and the victim’s inability to get up on his own thereafter, would not have attempted to lift or move him.
A dispute arose between Sakthivel and Mr Manjunatha that eventually led to an altercation between them after they had alighted. An autopsy showed that Mr Manjunatha suffered a small crack in the bone above the left eye and there was a displacement in his spine. District Judge Lee said none of the eyewitnesses had seen the victim losing his footing after stepping on uneven ground. He added that based on the manner of the Mr Manjunatha’s steps in video footage and the extremely short time between when he was hit and when he fell, it was clear that he had fallen to the ground as a result of having been hit.
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