RAEESAH KHAN AND PARTY Officials CHANGE.
Additionally, the prosecution relies on the WhatsApp messages and emails Ms. Khan exchanged with Singh and various group leaders to support its case.
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam made a speech during a parliament session on October 4, 2021, asking Ms. Khan for more information so that her allegation that the officers were handling a sexual assault case may be looked into.
According to the trial, while the secretary was speaking, Ms Khan sent Singh a message asking for assistance, creating:” What if I would, Pritam”. Both were present in the legislature room at the time.
Singh replied to the minister’s communication after she had replied, telling her she could not provide more information because of the security but that she had once more confirmed her anecdote.
After the congress session, Singh responded to Ms. Khan’s request to speak. They had a meeting with Ms. Lim, the WP chairperson, at around 11.15 p.m. that night.
The prosecution claims that Ms. Khan was given legal advice by Singh and Ms. Lim, but they never asked her why she had lied again or how to understand the lay.
” Mr Khan, however, told them that perhaps there was another manner – to tell the truth. The prosecution’s case is that ( Singh ) told her it was too late for that”, argued Mr Ang.
The officers sent Ms. Khan an email asking to speak with her about her tale on October 7, 2021. Ms Khan forwarded this message to Singh, Ms Lim and Mr Faisal, and asked them for suggestions.
According to the trial, Ms Khan did not receive a reply from the party officials, and upward until Oct 11, 2021, none of them instructed Ms Khan to understand her stay with the officers or in congress.
At a gathering on Oct 12, 2021, Singh and Ms Lim explained to Ms Khan that the issue of the story would not go away, and she should understand the rest in parliament, according to the trial.
From then until Oct 31, 2021, she prepared some drawings of her clarificatory speech, in conversation with Singh, Ms Lim and her assistants Ms Loh and Mr Nathan.
Gathering Discipline PROCEEDINGS
The WP’s inside disciplinary procedures were included in the lawyer’s opening statement, which included details on Ms. Khan’s behavior.
On October 29, 2021, a meeting of the WP’s central executive committee ( CEC ) met to inform CEC members of the clarification Ms. Khan was going to provide.
Mr. Ang testified before the court that the CEC had not been informed that Ms. Lim and Mr. Faisal had been informed on August 8, 2021, nor that Singh and Ms. Khan had met on October 3, 2021 to explore what to do about the rest.
Mr. Low contacted Singh and suggested that the WP form a administrative board to look into the matter after Ms. Khan provided her explanation in congress on November 1, 2021, according to the attorney.
On November 2, 2021, Singh, Ms Lim, and Mr Faisal were all convened on a administrative board that met Ms. Khan and WP people.
At one such meeting, some WP people, including trial testimony Ms. Loh and Mr. Nathan, expressed concern that the board itself had to accept responsibility for” the way they had led Ms. Khan in the matter,” according to Mr. Ang.
Ms. Khan made her announcement to step down as an MP and WP part on November 30, 2021. In the end, the CEC voted to remove Ms. Khan from the group if she continued to attend the meeting.
The WP held a press event on December 2, 2021, which was the first time the COP was hearing oral testimony from witnesses like Ms. Khan and Loh.
” ( Singh ) would have known that Ms. Khan and/or Ms. Loh’s involvement in the matter would have been revealed when they testified before the COP,” said Mr. Ang.
Singh made the initial public admission at this press conference that the WP had been aware of Ms. Khan’s fabrication about a year after she first reported the sexual assault case to parliament.
The penalties Singh faces are a maximum jail term of three years, a fine of up to S$ 7, 000 ( US$ 5, 360 ), or both per charge.
The Attorney-General’s Chambers had recently said that the trial may get a good for each cost if Singh is convicted.
Anyone who is fined at least S$ 10,000 or jailed for at least a month is not eligible to run for office as an MP under the laws of the Constitution.
A sitting MP who is subject to these fines may lose their desk. The suspension is for five decades.
According to researchers, the Constitution’s browsing will determine Singh’s fate.
The maximum fine of S$ 14, 000 may preclude him as an MP and from running in the upcoming election if both fees are combined as an offense.
After admitting to her rest, Ms Khan resigned from the WP and as an MP, and was given a S$ 35, 000 good on the COP’s advice.
The test continues, with Ms Khan set to take the walk on Monday.