Singapore:An Indian-origin man was sentenced to more than 21 months in jail and fined SGD 5,000 for breaching the stringent COVID-19 measures by drinking alcohol with his friends and driving a lorry, dragging one of the friends along the road.
K Pradeep Ram, 41, had also charged towards a police officer while uttering threatening and abusive words at another officer, reported The Straits Times.
The incident took place in 2020.
With his blood alcohol level more than double the prescribed limit allowed to drive a vehicle, Ram was also disqualified from driving for 10 years.
He pleaded guilty to four charges, including one count of dangerous driving causing grievous hurt and another of using abusive words towards a police officer.
Deputy Public Prosecutor Timotheus Koh said on May 24, 2020, at around 9 pm, Ram and his friend Pravin met at another friend's house for dinner and drinks.
Koh said the trio met up for a social purpose when they were not permitted to do so under measures put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 then.
At around 4.45 am, Ram and Pravin left the house. Ram offered to take Pravin home using his company lorry, which was parked at a car park in Choa Chu Kang housing estate.
At the car park, Ram and Pravin started tussling with each other while intoxicated. They pushed, wrestled and used road traffic cones to hit each other. Almost an hour later, Pravin lay down on a road hump at the car park. Ram then started driving his lorry in a dangerous manner, the newspaper reported.
He first collided into a construction barrier on the side of the road and kept going and his lorry swayed from one side of the road to the other, said DPP Koh.
Ram then drove to the hump that Pravin was laying on and without slowing down or stopping drove over it.