Indian-Origin Malaysian man jailed for rape in Singapore

An Indian-origin Malaysian man was sentenced in Singapore to 12 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane for raping a domestic worker outside a train station after tricking her into thinking that he was a police officer. Sharveen Chetty, 48, pleaded guilty on February 4 to one charge of raping the 35-year-old Indonesian woman in the bushes outside Exit F of a subway, Little India Mass Rapid Transit station, at about 8pm on July 11, 2022.

The victim was with her friends at the time, but Chetty lured her away before he sexually assaulted her, according to a report by The Straits Times on Thursday. Two other charges – a second rape charge and a charge of impersonating a police officer – were taken into consideration. The witnesses who testified on the first day of the trial included a doctor from Women’s and Children’s Hospital who examined the victim a day after the rapes.