Mr Ang then asked if Mr Low ‘s recollection was wrong.
“I wouldn’t say that,” replied Singh, qualifying that the meeting had been unremarkable to him. He added that he could not recall specific details of the conversation, but maintained that the party leaders would have told Mr Low that Ms Khan would have to come clean.
Honing in on the inconsistency, Mr Ang then asked: “Who is telling the truth?”
“So either you are lying or he is lying. Is that what you are saying?” he asked.
Singh replied that the prosecution would have to draw its own conclusions.
“I will,” Mr Ang replied. He then put to Singh that it was Mr Low who suggested that Ms Khan go to parliament to clarify the untruth. Singh disagreed.
Turning to Singh’s police statement, Mr Ang directed his attention to how Singh had answered “yes” when the police asked if Mr Low had been told during the meeting that Ms Khan had confessed her lie to the party leaders on Aug 8, 2021.
Singh concurred with his answer in the police statement.
“I believe I would have … but my relationship with Mr Low is such that we speak openly about everything … anything that he asked, I would have answered openly,” he elaborated.
But Mr Low said the leaders did not tell him such a thing, Mr Ang pointed out.
He asked again if Mr Low or Singh was telling the truth, and Singh doubled down on his answer in his statement.
Asked if Mr Low was lying, Singh said it was a “question of memories”.
He stuck to the stance that he would have shared the detail with Mr Low due to his relationship with the former secretary-general.
Mr Ang then suggested to Singh: “I will suggest to you that you never told Mr Low that you found out about the untruth as early as August, do you agree or disagree?”
Singh disagreed.
“The reason you did not do that is because you knew what Mr Low’s reaction would be,” continued Mr Ang. Singh disagreed with this suggestion as well.
The prosecution wrapped up it’s cross-examination of Singh on Friday morning with a series of questions putting its case to him.
Mr Jumabhoy will begin his re-examination of Singh after the lunch break.
Asked by Judge Tan if he would be calling any defence witnesses, Mr Jumabhoy said he would cross the bridge when it came to that.
