SINGAPORE – Sheik Ferdous Sheik Alau’ddin, who won gold for Singapore at the 2018 World Pencak Silat Championship, was fined $8,000 and disqualified from driving for 48 months for drink driving. The 27-year-old was found to have around 2.65 times the prescribed limit of alcohol in his breath. He is a son of Dr Sheik Alau’ddin Yacoob Marican, chief executive...
Sheik Ferdous Sheik Alau’ddin was found to have about 2.65 times the prescribed limit of alcohol in his breath on Nov 27, 2022.SINGAPORE – Sheik Ferdous Sheik Alau’ddin, who won gold for Singapore at the 2018 World Pencak Silat Championship, was fined $8,000 and disqualified from driving for 48 months for drink driving.He is a son of Dr Sheik Alau’ddin Yacoob Marican, chief executive of the Singapore Silat Federation.
Sheik Ferdous was found sitting in the driver’s seat, slouched forward and facing downwards, said the prosecutor. An instant breathalyser test was conducted on him, and he failed the test. He was then arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and taken to the Traffic Police Headquarters for a breath evidential analyser test.The second test revealed that the proportion of alcohol in his breath was 93 micrograms of alcohol in every 100ml of breath, about 2.65 times the prescribed limit of 35mcg of alcohol per 100ml of breath.
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