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SINGAPORE – The trial of two Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) officers allegedly involved in a 2018 ragging incident, in which national serviceman drowned in a pump well, closed on Friday (June 12), with the court set to deliver its verdict on July 10.
Kenneth Chong Chee Boon, 37, and Nazhan Mohamed Nazi, 40, are each contesting one charge of intentionally aiding a group of SCDF servicemen to cause grievous hurt to full-time national serviceman (NSF) Kok Yuen Chin, 22, via a rash act endangering human life on the night of May 13, 2018.
They are accused of doing so by failing to prevent the group from pressuring Corporal Kok to enter the 12m-deep pump well at Tuas View Fire Station that night — an activity known as kolam — to mark the impending completion of his national service.
Chong was commander and Nazhan, deputy commander, of the station then.
Cpl Kok eventually drowned after he was pushed into the well by another serviceman, Muhammad Nur Fatwa Mahmood.
Three regulars, including Nur Fatwa, have already been convicted and sentenced for their involvement in the death.
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