Singapore, Nov. 1 -- A Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) first warrant officer has become the third person to be convicted in a ragging case that led to the death of full-time national serviceman Kok Yuen Chin, 22.
Second Principal District Judge Victor Yeo yesterday found Mohamed Farid Mohd Saleh, 36, guilty of instigating Muhammad Nur Fatwa Mahmood, 34, a staff sergeant, to commit a rash act not amounting to culpable homicide by telling him to push Corporal Kok into a 12m-deep pump well at the Tuas View Fire Station on May 13 last year. Cpl Kok drowned after Nur Fatwa pushed him in.
Two men involved in the case pleaded guilty earlier to their offences.
Nur Fatwa was sentenced to one year and four weeks in jail last October while ...