{"id":16669,"date":"2025-12-04T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16669"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:58:34","slug":"high-court-dismisses-pritam-singhs-appeal-against-conviction-for-lying-to-parliamentary-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16669","title":{"rendered":"High Court dismisses Pritam Singh&#8217;s appeal against conviction for lying to parliamentary committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>He was convicted and sentenced to a total fine of S$14,000 (US$10,700). The fine, at S$7,000 per charge, did not disqualify him from being a member of parliament as it did not meet the threshold for disqualification.<\/p>\n<p>The Elections Department said after his sentencing that disqualification is based on the sentence for a single offence. The threshold for disqualification is at least a year&#8217;s jail, or a fine of at least S$10,000 per offence.<\/p>\n<p>The closely covered trial included testimonies by Ms Khan, her former aides and WP stalwart Low Thia Khiang.<\/p>\n<p>The trial judge found that the evidence showed that Singh never wanted Ms Khan to clarify the untruth, and that his lack of guidance on how to do so was consistent with his lack of desire for it to happen.<\/p>\n<p>He also found that Singh was not a credible witness, while Ms Khan and her aides &#8220;displayed courage in testifying and speaking the truth&#8221;, despite the defence&#8217;s attempt to undermine their credibility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/pritam-singh-appeal-outcome-lie-parliament-raeesah-khan-5499316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was convicted and sentenced to a total fine of S$14,000 (US$10,700). The fine, at S$7,000 per charge, did not disqualify him from being a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Idu3_9TV--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/04\/_wal0572.jpg?itok=KsthpWNC","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2352,6746,2761,547,2760,1950,7878,7879,7876,7877],"class_list":["post-16669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-appeal","tag-committee","tag-conviction","tag-court","tag-dismisses","tag-high","tag-lying","tag-parliamentary","tag-pritam","tag-singhs","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}