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SINGAPORE \u2013 A traveller who was drunk and caused a 45-minute flight delay at Changi Airport has been charged with being a nuisance.<\/p>\n
Arudchelvan Karnan, 25, a British national, was handed five charges on Aug 12.<\/p>\n
Two were for harassment, while the remaining three were for causing annoyance while drunk in public, unauthorised entry to a protected place and causing hurt.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, the episode began at 3.45pm on July 20, when he was drunk and shouting at Gate C17, annoying those around him.<\/p>\n
At 3.50pm, he allegedly harassed a female airport staff member by using vulgarities on her and accusing her of being racist.<\/p>\n
At 4.05pm, after being told he was to be offloaded from a Scoot flight, he allegedly charged onto the aerobridge.<\/p>\n
A minute later, he allegedly hurt another female staff member by bulldozing past her and causing her to fall.<\/p>\n
He then uttered abusive words that included vulgarities, mentioning Singapore and Malaysia.<\/p>\n
The police said on Aug 11 that the man\u2019s actions had delayed the flight to Kuala Lumpur by 45 minutes<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n When Arudchelvan appeared in court on Aug 12, he said he wanted a lawyer.<\/p>\n The court had considered changing his bail, which would have required a Singaporean to bail him out. But it did not do so after Arudchelvan said he did not know anyone here.<\/p>\n He is currently out on $1,000 bail with his passport impounded, and the case is expected to be heard again on Aug 19.<\/p>\n If convicted of causing annoyance while intoxicated in a public place, Arudchelvan can be fined up to $1,000 and jailed for up to six months.<\/p>\n For using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, he can be fined up to $5,000.<\/p>\n He can also be fined up to $20,000 and jailed for up to two years for unauthorised entry to a protected place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A traveller who was drunk and caused a 45-minute flight delay at Changi Airport has been charged with being a nuisance. Arudchelvan Karnan,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76186,"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-76185","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\/76185","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=76185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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