A 42-year-old Indian-origin singer in Singapore, Sivabalan Siva Prasad Menon, was fined SG $3,000 on Monday after pleading responsible to at least one depend of molestation of a feminine freelance manufacturing crew member, in line with a report.

The incident occurred in 2022 on the Mediacorp Campus in Stars Avenue after the sufferer reported for work on the manufacturing of a present the place Menon was employed as a singer and dancer, The Straits Times reported.

Between 3 pm and 11:30 pm on the day of the incident, Menon consumed 10 to fifteen cups of whisky.

After the present ended, when the carry arrived for the sufferer and her good friend, Menon, intoxicated, walked out and grabbed the sufferer by her jaw, kissing her proper cheek.

The sufferer, expressing her discomfort, tried to drag away, and her good friend intervened, instructing Menon to go away.

The sufferer and her good friend walked away and known as for the subsequent carry, noting Menon’s alcohol odour as he left the world.

Distressed, the sufferer and her good friend went to a room for manufacturing crew members, the place she cried and hyperventilated.

Later that day, she alerted the police.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Grace Teo said that lower than three seconds handed between Menon grabbing the sufferer’s jaw and releasing her.

Menon was fined on February 5, with protection lawyer Kanthan Raghavendra emphasising that this was Menon’s first encounter with the legislation. Raghavendra highlighted the fleeting nature of the contact, asserting that there was no intrusion into the sufferer’s personal components.

The expenses and sentencing happened with the woman’s id protected by a gag order, and particulars concerning the present and the precise date weren’t disclosed to defend her id.

However, there isn’t any such order defending Menon’s id.