Overview
- The Singapore High Court on Feb 26 sentenced Sharveen Chetty to 12 years’ imprisonment and 12 strokes of the cane.
- Chetty, 48, a Malaysian who worked as SBS Transit station staff, pleaded guilty to one rape count, with a second rape charge and an impersonation charge taken into consideration.
- On July 11, 2022 at Little India MRT, he posed as a police officer, checked work permits with a body-worn camera, and led a 35-year-old Indonesian domestic worker to bushes outside Exit F.
- He threatened to have her and her friends blacklisted from working in Singapore, after which he raped her; she reported the assault soon after with help from auxiliary police.
- He was arrested on July 14, 2022 at Tuas Checkpoint after briefly leaving Singapore; Justice Dedar Singh Gill called his actions premeditated and noted the guilty plea spared the victim cross-examination, as prosecutors had sought 11 to 13 years plus caning.