<p> Singapore, Sep 20 (PTI): A 37-year-old construction worker from India was fined SGD400 on Thursday for defecating on Oct 30 last year at the entrance of 'The Shoppes' mall at Marina Bay Sands, a casino resort.</p><p> Appearing in court, Ramu Chinnarasa pleaded guilty to one charge under the Environmental Public Health (Public Cleansing) Regulations, reported TODAY newspaper.</p><p> An image of him committing the act went viral on Facebook last October, garnering more than 1,500 likes, 1,700 comments and 4,700 shares in about two days.</p><p> Before that, Ramu had drunk three bottles of hard liquor and was gambling inside the Marina Bay Sands casino, according to TODAY report.</p><p> At about 5 am, he left the casino. He wanted to relieve himself but could not go to the toilet because he was still heavily intoxicated.</p><p> So, outside a restaurant near the entrance of Marina Bay Sands at 7.01 am, Ramu took off his pants, squatted and defecated on the floor.</p><p> He then left the building and slept on one of the stone benches outside Marina Bay Sands until about 11 am, before returning to his dormitory in Kranji.</p><p> Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Adelle Tai said that a security officer at Marina Bay Sands saw a post containing a video of Ramu defecating later that day and made a police report.</p><p> The prosecution told the court that Ramu had left Singapore on Oct 31 last year and returned "sometime later." On June 4 this year, he tried to enter the same casino and was detected as an "undesirable guest." A police report was made and he was arrested.</p><p> In response, District Judge Christopher Goh Eng Chiang said, according to TODAY: "Do you know how to get the lowest fine? Don't do this in public." "Better still, don't get yourself so drunk that this happens. I want you to know if this happens again — I hope not — the fine will be higher than today," the Judge said.</p><p> DPP Kiera Yu called for a fine of SGD 400 to SGD 500, noting that Ramu had defecated in public for about 10 minutes.</p><p> "The offender did not make any attempts to clean up after himself, nor did he inform any cleaners of the act.</p><p> "If not for the fact that his offence was filmed by a member of the public and subsequently discovered by the MBS security team, the offender's faeces would be left in the open for an extended period of time, in a public shopping mall with heavy foot traffic," DPP Yu added.</p><p> She also said that the damage to public cleanliness was "significant." Any person found guilty of defecating in a public place that is not a sanitary convenience for such purpose can be fined up to SGD 1,000 for the first offence, and to a further fine of up to SGD 100 for every day the offence continues after conviction. PTI GS VN VN</p><p><i>(This story is published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. No editing has been done in the headline or the body by ABP Live.)</i></p>
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