{"id":62879,"date":"2026-06-22T20:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62879"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:01:01","slug":"jail-for-man-who-exposed-himself-to-police-officer-after-his-arrest-for-molestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=62879","title":{"rendered":"Jail for man who exposed himself to police officer after his arrest for molestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">SINGAPORE \u2013 A 59-year-old who was arrested at a supermarket for molestation after touching a woman\u2019s thigh later exposed himself to a female officer at the police station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">M.S. Chandru Suryakanth was on June 22 sentenced to 12 weeks\u2019 jail after pleading guilty to one count of sexual exposure and one charge of outrage of modesty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">According to court documents, Chandru was at a supermarket in Sembawang at about 11.45pm on April 7, 2025, when he committed the crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The victim, who had finished paying for her groceries and was about to exit the store, was walking past the offender when he used his left hand to touch her thigh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">The woman shouted at him, and he apologised before walking away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Distressed, the woman called her husband, who confronted Chandru. The police arrived shortly after and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">After his arrest, Chandru was taken to the Woodlands Police Divisional Headquarters and had to undergo a body search by police officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">During the search, one of the officers, identified as a 24-year-old female in court documents, asked him to remove the white drawstring from his track pants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Instead of doing so, Chandru pulled his pants down to his knees, exposing his genitals to the police officer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Another officer asked Chandru to pull his pants back up and he complied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Deputy Public Prosecutor Andrew Chia sought a sentence of at least <!-- -->nine<!-- --> weeks to three months and three weeks for Chandru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For exposing his or her genitals to another person without consent, an offender can be jailed for up to a year, fined, or both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">For the outrage of modesty, an offender can be jailed for up to three years, fined, caned, or receive any combination of such punishments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/courts-crime\/jail-for-man-who-exposed-himself-to-police-officer-after-his-arrest-for-molestation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE \u2013 A 59-year-old who was arrested at a supermarket for molestation after touching a woman\u2019s thigh later exposed himself to a female officer at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62879","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=62879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}