32-year-old, Muhammad Fadly Rosli was sentenced to 4 weeks in jail and ordered to pay for the medical bills of the 49-year-old victim.
According to the media release, the incident happened on the 31st of July 2019.
Fadly took the taxi at Orchard Tower at around 11.05 pm with three other acquaintance consisting of two other men and one woman. Court documents did not mention what they were doing at Orchard Tower before the incident.
Fadly and friends started to behave rowdily in the Taxi and started hitting the roof of the taxi repeatedly for unknown reasons.
Although the taxi driver told them that it would be unsafe to behave this way in a moving vehicle, they did not stop and continue behaving rowdily in the Taxi. Fadly and another friend started an argument with the Taxi driver, it was then Fadly hit the driver in the face.
The Taxi driver wanted to drive to the nearest Police station with the four of them but they “escaped” when the Taxi stopped at a traffic light at Ang Mo Kio.
For Causing Hurt
He could have been imprisoned for up to two years, fined S$5,000, or both.