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On 12/6, for taking down an upskirt audio-visual with his handphone a 30-year-old man was sentenced to jail for two weeks.
Tan Jun Rong pleaded guilty to one charge of outraging the modesty of the victim, who was shopping at Orchard Road.
On 12/7 last year, Tan approached her from behind the victim who was shopping at Shaw House, said the prosecution.
Tan, then position himself into half squat, placed his cell phone under the victim’s skirt and record an upskirt video of the victim.
He was immediately confronted by a store assistant who saw his act with another calling the police.
Though his phone was detained as a case exhibit, no convicting photos and videos were found as he already erased the video from his phone by the time the police reached.
In sentencing Tan, District Judge Imran Hamid described Tan’s act as “brazen” and one that “intrudes on the privacy of the woman”. Tan could have been jailed for up to a year, and fined, for insulting the modesty of a woman.