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SINGAPORE – The Marsiling-Yew Tee Town Council on Tuesday (Jan 21) clarified that it did not lodge a police report to arrest a resident for service and conservancy charges (S&CC) arrears.
Instead, the resident was arrested after the court issued a warrant of arrest in December 2016, when she did not turn up for a mandated court hearing, the town council said in a Facebook post.
The town council’s clarification followed a Facebook post by career counsellor and activist Gilbert Goh on Sunday about the resident, whom he said had been arrested at her office for not paying accumulated S&CC bills of $2,150.
In his post, he said she is a single mother who works as a promoter, and claimed that she had stayed in the police lock-up for nearly 10 hours before being released.
Yesterday, the town council said the resident, who lives in a five-room flat, has owed service and conservancy charges for several years before 2016. “Despite attempts at engaging the resident, the town council unfortunately had to undertake legal recourse,” it added.
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