Indian Rapper Guilty of Inciting Racial & Religious Discord

Singapore : An Indian-origin Singaporean rapper on Tuesday was found guilty by a court here of attempting to promote ill will among racial and religious groups in the multi-national city-state.

Subhas Govin Prabhakar Nair, 31, was convicted of four such charges over incidents that occurred between July 2019 and March 2021. Sentencing arguments will be heard at a later date, the Channel News Asia reported.

Nair’s lawyer successfully applied for him to leave the country for Bali in August to attend a friend’s wedding and for leisure.

The penalties for attempting to promote feelings of ill will between racial or religious groups are a jail term of up to three years, a fine or both.

Nair had first posted a YouTube video of him and his sister Preeti Nair performing a song, which contained the lyrics ‘Chinese people always out here f***ing it up’.

For this, he was given a two-year conditional warning by the police, but he re-offended by posting comments on social media.