SINGAPORE: 34-year-old Meesala Siva Prasad who was looking for girls on the MRT found one at a train station and asked if she wants to go hotel and not long after started kissing her hand.
Initially, he denied the crime saying what he did was part of his culture.
He was sentenced to only five days of jail for using criminal force on the 24-year-old victim after pleading guilty to his offences.
How it Happened
The incident happened on 27 June 2019, It was around 10.50 pm, Meesala approached the 24-year-old girl and started asking directions in the MRT station.
It did not take long before he started to ask the girl if she would like to go to hotel 81. The victim refused him and they boarded a train at the North-East Line.
In the train, he asks the girl to sleep with her and took out S$100 to pay the girl, the girl was disgusted by him. This was when he started to kiss the girl’s hand. At some point in the conversation, he also took the girl’s handphone number, but the victim only gave it to him out of fear.
He called her handphone number to confirm that it was real and later alighted at Little India.
Outcome
The judge sentenced him to five days’ jail and backdated it. (WTF?)
For outraging the victim’s modesty, Meesala could have been jailed for up to two years, fined, caned or given any combination of these punishments.