Singapore police to probe racial discrimination faced by Indian-origin officer before death
Singapore, Jul 22 (PTI) Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam has asked the Singapore Police Force (SPF) to investigate claims made by an Indian-origin police officer who said he faced racial discrimination and bullying at the workplace, among other allegations just before he died.
Uvaraja Gopal, 36, identified as a police officer, was found lying motionless at the foot of an apartment block in the Yishun housing estate and was transported to the hospital on Friday, where he died.
In a Facebook post on Friday evening, Shanmugam offered his deepest condolences to Gopal's family and said that he had asked the police to look into the allegations made by the officer before his death.
