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SINGAPORE: The former boss of the popular North Bridge Road restaurant, Zam Zam, has been charged with reckless act and criminal intimidation.
These were crimes he allegedly committed while on bail, pending appeal after being sentenced for hiring a hit man to kill a rival from the Victory restaurant next door.
Zackeer Abbass Khan, 50, received the two charges on Tuesday (October 27) and was placed in pre-trial detention.
He is charged with criminally intimidating Mr. Amir Norman Halim on October 24 at 719 North Bridge Road.
According to the charge sheets, he said: “Why are you fighting Habeeb? If you fight again, I prick your eye. If you love your family, you work well. If you don’t see I’ll kill you. I’m not afraid if I kill you. Because I’m coming. If you fight again, in 2 days, you see that I kill you ”.
At around the same time that day, Khan is accused of committing a reckless act by swerving his car toward Amir before braking, forcing him to take a step back.
Khan told the court that he had been out on bail for five years, adding that he has five young children.
“I did not relapse,” he said. “I was just driving my vehicle. I have been wrongly accused. I have a heart problem. I have two stents in my heart. It is only a month after my operation. “
The judge did not order any bail for Khan. He will return to court next month.
Khan had been sentenced in May to six years in prison and six strokes of the baton, after challenging the charges in court.
He was convicted of criminal intimidation and conspiring with several others to have the Victory restaurant supervisor, Liakath Ali Mohamed Ibrahim, cut and leave scars.
The case is pending appeal in Superior Court.
