WP chief Pritam Singh charged with lying to Parliament over Raeesah Khan’s case, pleads not guilty

Leader of the Opposition and Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh is under a police probe in relation to a controversy involving former MP Raeesah Khan lying in Parliament.Leader of the Opposition and Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh was charged on March 19 with two counts of lying to a parliamentary committee, two years after the police opened investigations into his conduct before the Committee of Privileges.

He requested for a four-week adjournment to engage a lawyer. A pre-trial conference has been scheduled for April 17. During a debate on empowering women on Aug 3, 2021, Ms Khan, then MP for Sengkang GRC, had claimed to have accompanied a sexual assault victim to a police station where the victim was treated insensitively. She repeated the claim again in the House on Oct 4, 2021.

After a total of 31 hours of hearings held over several weeks, the committee found Ms Khan guilty of abuse of privilege and recommended that she be fined a total of $35,000. At the crux of the matter was the three months that elapsed before Ms Khan confessed in Parliament on Nov 1, 2021, to lying. The committee added that while the default position is that Parliament should deal with matters that arise in a parliamentary context, it appeared best in this case that the matter “be dealt with through a trial process, rather than by Parliament alone”, given the seriousness of the two WP leaders’ actions.

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