SINGAPORE, May 11 — A 26‑year‑old Malaysian man was jailed for six weeks for secretly recording videos of four men in a toilet at the Sembcorp Marine Tuas Boulevard Yard.
Jathavaram Ragavan pleaded guilty to one charge of intentionally recording a private act without consent, with two other similar charges taken into consideration, according to CNA.
The court heard that he deleted the videos after realising he would be investigated, and that it was unclear to what degree the four victims’ privacy was violated, based on court documents.
Jathavaram entered the men’s toilet on the morning of January 26, 2026, and saw a man enter one of the cubicles.
He went into the adjacent stall and positioned his mobile phone so that its camera lens pointed into the victim’s cubicle.
The victim noticed the phone protruding over the cubicle wall and shouted, prompting Jathavaram to flee.
The victim later found him at the canteen and demanded to see his phone.
The device contained three earlier videos of other men using the same toilet, all filmed in January 2026.
Jathavaram deleted all four videos after he was confronted, knowing the police would investigate him.
He was arrested on Jan 26, 2026, and released on bail the next day.
A gag order protects the identity of one victim, while the other three men have not been identified.
For intentionally recording a private act without consent, he faced up to two years’ jail, a fine, caning, or any combination of these penalties.
