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Singapore Jails Vaithialingam Muthukumar for Bigamy After Hospital Encounter Exposed Second Marriage

A residency bid built on false declarations collapsed when the second wife alerted authorities, prompting a police case.

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Overview

  • He received a three-month, three-week jail term on Thursday for offences tied to a secret second marriage.
  • He pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bigamy and to making false declarations in permanent-residence and visit-pass applications.
  • His first wife discovered the second marriage on September 14, 2023, after seeing him leave the delivery suite at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital where she worked.
  • He married his first wife in India in 2007 and wed colleague Salmah Bee Abdul Razak in a Muslim ceremony in Nagore, India, in August 2022 while the first marriage remained valid.
  • The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority rejected his spouse-based PR application in October 2024 after the second wife reported the dual marriages to the Ministry of Manpower, leading to a police probe and a prosecution that the deputy public prosecutor said involved deception of both women.