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SINGAPORE – Three people who were part of the group involved in the raid that resulted in a police officer firing his revolver at a suspect were charged on Friday (November 6).
Prakash Mathivanan, the suspect who was shot by an officer, was charged by a field magistrate as he is currently still in hospital.
The 36-year-old man faces two charges, one of which involves voluntarily wounding a Singapore Police Force sergeant with the intent to dissuade him from doing his duty by punching and kicking him.
The second charge is for his alleged involvement in misleading Singtel into thinking he was a customer who wanted to buy seven iPhone 11 Pro Max phones valued at $ 14,273 on October 14.
The other two defendants – Nikhil M. Durgude, 22, and Malani Naidu Prabhakar Naidu, 33 – appeared in district court on Friday and were charged.
Durgude was accused of willfully causing harm to dissuade a public servant from doing his duty.
When asked by District Judge Terence Tay if he had anything to say, he recalled the incident to the court and denied that he hit and kicked the officer accused of causing harm. He will be sent to pretrial detention for a week and is scheduled to appear in court on November 13.
Malani was charged with her alleged involvement in the cheating incident and will return to court on November 13.
All three have prior charges related to a wide range of crimes, including deception. In 2017, Malani and Prakash were accused of participating in a conspiracy to commit cheating.
On Thursday, police said a man was shot in the abdomen during a fight with police officers who raided a Balestier Road apartment that morning to investigate a series of scams.
The man was taken by paramedics to the hospital and is in stable condition, police said Thursday.
The shooting incident occurred in an apartment at the City Suites condo on Balestier Road around 1 a.m. Thursday. Three plainclothes policemen, armed with revolvers and handcuffs, raided the apartment to arrest four people suspected of being involved in a series of cheating cases.
Police seized $ 20,000 of alleged criminal proceeds, drugs, and drug-related paraphernalia. The Central Narcotics Office has also been tied up to investigate alleged drug-related crimes.
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