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SINGAPORE – A man beat his elderly mother, causing her to fall and fracture her femur, after she refused to loan him $ 120.
Satpal Singh Jaswant Singh, 40, was sentenced to two years in jail on Thursday (September 10) on one count of assault and a series of other offenses, including two counts of harassment and one count each of use of force. criminal against a public servant and criminal intimidation.
The court heard that Singh, a Singaporean, returned home around midnight on February 7 and asked his mother, Mrs. Ranjeer Kaur, for $ 120.
The 69-year-old woman told her son that she couldn’t afford to lend him more money and encouraged him to look for work.
Singh then got angry and hit her right thigh once, causing her to fall. She left the scene shortly after.
Madame Kaur called the police when she realized that she was unable to get up on her own and was later taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
A medical report dated February 27 said that her right femur had been fractured after she fell when her son struck her.
On the harassment charge, the court was told that Singh met a 34-year-old woman in May last year and that they had a disagreement four months later.
Details about the disagreement were not disclosed in court documents, but the woman subsequently blocked Singh’s phone number because she wanted to cut off all communication with him.
He responded by tormenting her from September 20 to November 13 of last year, even calling her repeatedly almost daily from pay phones.
Singh also contacted the woman’s husband via Facebook Messenger, claiming that he had been intimate with her.
In a separate incident, the court heard that Singh joined two men for a drinking session on the empty floor of Block 140 Potong Pasir Avenue 3 around 1.30 p.m. on February 24 this year and then got into a fight with one of them for an undisclosed matter.
He left after telling the man that he would “skin him alive” and returned to the empty deck around 4 am armed with a kitchen knife.
The man, who escaped after Singh said he would stab him, called police and four officers arrived shortly after.
Singh, who was observed to be drunk, was unwilling to cooperate when one of the officers tried to interview him.
He then threw vulgarities at the policemen and spat at an officer.
For assaulting his mother, Singh could have been jailed for up to five years and fined up to $ 10,000.
He could have been jailed for up to four years and fined for using criminal force against a public servant.
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