A man who had been married for 15 years secretly married his younger colleague, committing bigamy, which is a criminal offence in Singapore.
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He got exposed while visiting his second wife, who had given birth at the hospital where his first wife worked.
Vaithialingam Muthukumar, a 49-year-old Indian national, was sentenced to three months and three weeks’ jail on Thursday.
He pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiring to commit bigamy with his second wife, and another of falsely declaring in an application for permanent residence that he did not have any other marriages.
A third charge of falsely stating in a visit pass application that he did not have past or other marriages was taken into consideration during sentencing.
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The court heard that Vaithialingam married his first wife, a Singaporean woman now aged 55, in India in 2007.