Singapore Imposes ₹3 Lakh Fine On Techie For Forged Medical Leave Certificate News24 –

A 37-year-old software developer in Singapore, Su Qin, was reportedly fined S$5,000 (Rs 3.2 lakh approximately) for making a fake medical certificate to take nine days’ leave from work. According to Channel News Asia, the woman, a citizen of China, resorted to forgery because of family-related health problems, including hers and her sick mother’s.

Afraid of what her company might think, she modified an old medical certificate, altered it to St. Luke Hospital, and then manipulated the leave dates with the help of Photoshop. Reports stated that she changed the date of hospitalisation from March 23 and April 3. She next dated the certificate to March 31.

Qin resigned from her job on April 4. Before she quit, she submitted the forged medical certificate to her company’s human resources department.

Additionally, she blurred the QR code on the certificate to prevent being caught and submitted it to the company’s HR department before resigning on April 4.

In due course, her forgery was caught when the HR tried to scan the blurred QR code. She even produced a second forged certificate on April 8, leading her company to fire her within 24 hours.

According to reports, the HR lodged a report of forgery with the police. Following investigations, it was revealed that she had also forged a death certificate of her mother to prolong her stay in China. Qin was asked to pay a fine of S$5,000 for her forgeries.