A police report made by Royston Albert against PAP’s Murali Pillai has been circulating on Facebook.
Here is what was stated in the police report.
“On the 30th of June 2020 at 3.45pm, Murali Pillai, the PAP Candidate for Bukit Batok SMC had posted on his personal Facebook Page that there was a ‘scurrillous attack’ made against his family via a post (he did not mention if the post was on social media or via other mediums). He posted a video of himself explaining that the post was an attack on his son with regards to his son’s criminal background and suggested that the post was made rrinutes after election was declared in the Bukit Batok SMC thereby suggesting that it was an attack to damage his candidacy and election campaign.”
“However, it seemed that there was perhaps no such post that attacked his family or son that was particularly being circulated on 30th June as mentioned by him. No such posts appeared on any of the various local media platforms or Facebook pages. Nor was there any such posts circulated via whatsapp groups or private dials, as far as I know. I. personally searched various media platforms and search engines and did not find anything on the matter (except news about his son’s criminal past whcih was reported many years back which still exists online). Cheds with many friends and online media Facebook pages also showed up nothing on that matter.”
“As such, there is reason to believe that Murali Pillai has contravened the POFMA Act.He has spread fakenews based on falsehood. In particular, he has contravened POFMA Act Part 2, Section 7-(1) (a), (b), (iv) where his falsehood may have been to influence the outcome of his own election campaign, a general election of Members of Parliament.”
“In view of the above, I strongly urge the Singapore Police Force to investigate the authenticity of his video claims on the ‘scurrilous attack’ of his son and that to show evidence that such a post existed and that he should make a police report on that post which he claims has hurt him and is damaging to his family. Otherwise, he should be be investigated for spreading fakenews and falsehood . I also strongly urge the POFMA agency to take this matter seriously and to thoroughly investigate Murali Pillai for his video post on his Facebook page.”