Punjaborigin man gets 3yr jail for making prank calls to Singapore cops
Punjab-origin Singaporean serial prank caller was sentenced to three years of imprisonment on Thursday for repeatedly making nuisance calls to the police, despite being jailed for the same offence previously.
Gurcharan Singh, a 61-yearold cleaner, usually made the “999” emergency calls after drinking alcohol, the court heard.
The latest incidents occurred over two days in June, with Singh making two calls on the first day and 15 on the second. On June 10, Singh called the police using a public phone at a void deck of an apartment block in Chai Chee housing estate.
In one of his calls, he told the operator: “You are stupid.” He also said: “I put dynamite to the immigration house.”
He knew this message to be false, Deputy Public Prosecutor Daphne Lim said.
The police traced Singh’s phone call location and arrested him that day, according to a Channel News Asia report. Three empty beer cans were also recovered from his possession, it said.
Despite this, Singh made another 15 calls to the police, all in one day, later that month.
Singh has been reoffending since 2000, with the most recent conviction in 2016, when he was sentenced to two-year jail term, the prosecutor said.
Lim asked for a jail sentence of three years and nine months, noting that Singh reoffended while out on bail and breached his remission order.