SINGAPORE - A cleaner who raped a 23-year-old woman in 2019 after pummelling her and dragging her into a forested area in Kranji was sentenced to 16 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane on Friday (Oct 28). The victim, a university student, had ended up in Kranji late at night after she took the wrong MRT train on.
On Friday, 26-year-old cleaner Chinnaiah Karthik pleaded guilty to the charge of aggravated rape for his assault on a woman around 1:30 am on May 4 in Kranji, a suburb in northwestern Singapore.
A cleaner who raped a 23-year-old woman in 2019 after pummelling her and dragging her into a forested area in Kranji was sentenced to 16 years’ jail and 12 strokes of the cane on Friday.