37-Year-Old Woman Fined Rs 3 Lakh For Taking 9 Days Sick Leave With Fake Medical Certificate

A techie has been slapped with a fine of Rs 3.3 lakh on charges of two counts of forgery for faking a medical certificate to avail sick leaves in Singapore.

#ItsViral | A woman was fined S$5,000 ( ₹3.2 lakh approximately) in #Singapore after forging a #medical certificate to take leave from #work

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Su Qin, a 37-year-old techie has been working for a software firm in Singapore for a while and needed a sabbatical to rest and also take care of her ailing mother. So she did take a 9-day sick leave. The Chinese national, who is a permanent resident of the country, was primarily worried about her mother’s health but did not want to leave a bad impression with her firm by availing leave for the same. Hence, Qin pulled off a classic desi stunt, very much in vogue in the subcontinent—she forged a medical certificate. The lady believed that taking sick leave for herself would be the better reason to explain her absence from work. She proceeded to digitally manipulate a medical certificate with the aid of Photoshop. She edited her medical certificate from an earlier date to show hospitalization from March 23, till April 3, 2024. She also blurred the QR of the certificate to avoid getting caught. The techie submitted the medicals and also resigned on April 4.

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Meanwhile, the company HR followed the due process to verify the documents. The HR noticed the blurred QR, prompting the department head to request Qin original copy of the medical certificates. The techie proceeded to do a second forgery and created a fake website to generate a forged QR code. She was confronted for both the forgeries and terminated within 24 hours. Per the court departments, Qin had been paid S$3,541.15 for the duration of her 9-day hospitalization, which she compensated to the company. The attorney for Qin requested the court to be lenient in judgment as she did not have anyone to bail her out and was going through a difficult time. The judge sentenced the techie with a fine of only S$5,000, which amounts to nearly Rs 3.2 lakh.

Woman, 37, fined S$5,000 in S’pore for forging MC to obtain 9 days of hospitalisation leave pic.twitter.com/SmNm39ecBd
— Mothership (@MothershipSG) October 2, 2024

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