Four men, including two under remission orders, charged over Rochor brawl
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Muhammad Nuraqib Minhat and Muhammad Fiqkri Jaffri are accused of committing the offence while they were under remission orders.
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- Four men were charged with rioting with deadly weapons after a brawl in Rochor Canal Road on Sept 7.
- Muhammad Nuraqib Minhat and Muhammad Fiqkri Jaffri were under remission orders at the time.
- Nuraqib, Muhammad Farzdhirman Yusman as well as Fiqkri and his twin brother Muhammad Farhan Jaffri were charged on Sept 10.
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SINGAPORE – Four men have each been charged with one count of rioting while armed with deadly weapons, after they allegedly took part in a brawl in Rochor Canal Road that left two people with stab wounds
Two of the alleged rioters – Muhammad Nuraqib Minhat, 32, and Muhammad Fiqkri Jaffri, 31 – are accused of committing the offence while they were under remission orders.
Nuraqib was released from prison in June 2023, and was supposed to keep out of trouble from June 10 that year to Sept 14, 2025.
Fiqkri is under a remission order from July 19, 2025, to Oct 7, 2026, after his earlier release from prison.
Court documents did not disclose details about their earlier offences. But they are now accused of breaching their remission orders after they allegedly re-offended by taking part in the Rochor brawl.
They could receive enhanced sentences if they are convicted over their roles in the incident.
The other two accused are Fiqkri’s twin brother Muhammad Farhan Jaffri, 31, and Muhammad Farzdhirman Yusman, 32.
All four men, who are Singaporeans, were ordered to be remanded at the Central Police Division.
On Sept 7, they were outside a pub in Rochor Canal Road when they allegedly ganged up against a 16-year-old boy and a 26-year-old man at around 4.20am.
Police said in a statement that the brawl had broken out following a dispute over an undisclosed matter.
The two victims were stabbed but were conscious when they were rushed to hospital.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the five men and the teenager knew one another.
The four alleged rioters were arrested on Sept 8 and their cases have been adjourned to Sept 17.
There has been an increase in the number of violent crimes,
In their mid-year crime brief released on Aug 26, the police said instances of physical crime rose in the first half of the year, with 10,341 cases reported from January to June.
This is an increase of 5.4 per cent from the 9,809 cases reported during the same period in 2024.
The police told The Straits Times in August that the first half of 2025 saw 75 knife-related incidents, up from 59 cases during the same period in 2024.
There were 131 knife-related incidents for the whole of 2024.
The police said: “Over the past three years, the number of knife-related crimes has remained relatively stable. The majority of cases involved culprits known to victims.”
They added that there was “no discernible trend suggesting a degradation of the law-and-order situation”.
An offender convicted of rioting while armed with deadly weapons can be jailed for up to 10 years and caned.
