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An Indian-origin Singaporean antheral was charged connected Monday (December 22, 2025) with making a mendacious violent menace astatine a religion wherever each services for the time were cancelled, Channel News Asia reported.
The incidental took spot connected Sunday (December 21, 2025). Kokulananthan Mohan, charged with an offence nether Regulation 8(2)(a) of the United Nations (Anti-terrorism Measures) Regulations, was arrested aft a suspicious point was recovered astatine St. Joseph's Church on Upper Bukit Timah region, which includes an upmarket residential area.
According to complaint sheets, the 26-year-old is accused of placing 3 cardboard rolls "filled with chromatic pebbles and sporting protruding reddish wires, held unneurotic utilizing achromatic and yellowish adhesive tapes" successful the religion astatine astir 7:11 a.m. connected Sunday (December 21).
This was allegedly done with the volition of inducing different idiosyncratic to a mendacious content that the point was apt to detonate oregon ignite and thereby origin idiosyncratic wounded oregon harm to property.
"Preliminary investigations suggest that the antheral had allegedly staged the incidental by placing a self-fabricated point which resembled an improvised explosive instrumentality wrong the religion premises," the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said successful a statement..
"He is believed to person acted alone, and determination is presently nary grounds to suggest that it was a religiously motivated onslaught oregon an enactment of terror." He was remanded for 3 weeks for psychiatric valuation and volition instrumentality to tribunal connected January 12, according to the Channel report.
When informed that the prosecution sought to person him remanded for aesculapian evaluation, Mohan initially said determination was a "miscommunication" arsenic his erstwhile admittance to the infirmary was alcohol-related, and this contented was resolved.
The Judge said that the psychiatric valuation requested was successful presumption of the probe officer's observations of behaviour and Mohan’s behaviour during the apprehension and constabulary operations.
Mohan past said that the crushed for the behaviour observed by the constabulary was a "lack of sleep" arsenic helium works the nighttime shift. The Judge said helium could explicate this to the psychiatrist during the aesculapian evaluation, according to the Channel report. If recovered guilty, helium could look up to 10 years’ jail, a good of up to SGD500,000 ($386,757), oregon both.
