Timeline: How a lie by Raeesah Khan led to Pritam Singh being charged with lying to a parliament committee

CNA retraces the developments since former Workers' Party member Raeesah Khan told an untruth in parliament nearly three years ago.

Asked for more details so that authorities could investigate, Ms Khan said she did not wish to re-traumatise the survivor. She also had not succeeded in contacting the woman since the incident.with Singh. He said he had highlighted this part in her draft speech, and asked her to address the matter because she had it on record.: Ms Khan met Singh, WP chair Sylvia Lim and party leader Faisal Manap. She told them she had lied and had no way of substantiating her statements in parliament.

Singh explained that after Ms Khan’s speech, he asked her to “make her best efforts to contact the victim or to contact the individuals” involved. When asked by the privileges committee, Ms Khan said that if the WP leadership had told her to come clean to parliament in October, or to assist the police and tell the truth, she would have done so.

He also agreed that after he became aware of Ms Khan’s lie, it would have been logical for him to ask if Ms Khan intended to clarify the lie, at various points during the events that later transpired.The WP chief denied asking Ms Khan to take the lie to the grave, suggesting she could have done so because of “disassociation”.

Singh testified that notes of an exchange between him and Ms Khan on Nov 29 at a WP disciplinary panel meeting were accurate. Ms Khan reiterated her claim that Singh told her to take her lie “to the grave”. She also said she never told the WP disciplinary panel that she suffered from dissociation; but that she could have symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.It found her guilty of abuse of parliamentary privilege, and recommended that she be fined S$35,000 for lying in parliament and repeating the lie.

The committee wrote:"We are satisfied that Mr Singh , have been untruthful in their evidence, under oath, to this Committee. This may amount to perjury, a serious criminal offence.”

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