NARESH KUMAR S/O NAGESVARAN v PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
The High Court held that failing to return to Singapore after an expired exit permit is a strict liability offence under the Enlistment Act and dismissed the appeal.
- Strict liability
- Presumption of mens rea
- Retrospective operation of statute
- Statutory defence of reasonable care
- Common law defence of reasonable care
- Enlistment act / national service offences