Two fined for high-rise littering in first convictions under presumption clause

Two HDB flat owners have been fined by the State Courts for littering from their respective high-rise Units, after they were unable to prove within a given time that they were not responsible for the offence.

- Fatimah Mujibah

The cases of a 63-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman are the first two convictions for high-rise littering under the presumption clause, said the National Environment Agency (NEA) on July 27.

The man was fined $700 on June 11 for throwing an object out of a toilet window from his unit in Bedok North Street 2.

The woman was fined the same amount on June 25 for throwing items such as food waste and unknown liquid out of the kitchen window of her Ang Mo Kio Street 52 unit.