M’sian man, 26, gets 6 weeks’ jail for secretly recording videos of 4 men in S'pore shipyard toilet using phone

A 26-year-old Malaysian man was sentenced to six weeks’ jail in Singapore for secretly recording videos of four men in a Sembcorp Marine shipyard toilet using his mobile phone.

The accused, identified as Jathavaram Ragavan, was sentenced on May 11.

He pleaded guilty to intentionally recording the men performing a private act without consent.

Two other charges taken into consideration.

A gag order was imposed to protect the identity of one of the victims.

The other three victims' identities were not disclosed.

Filming

In court documents seen by Mothership, Jathavaram entered a male toilet at the Sembcorp Marine Tuas Boulevard Yard on the morning of Jan. 26, 2026.

Jathavaram noticed the victim walking into one of the cubicles in the same toilet.

He then went into the cubicle next to the victim’s cubicle.

Once inside the cubicle, Jathavaram proceeded to position his mobile phone with its camera pointed down into the victim’s cubicle.

Noticing Jathavaram’s phone poking over the cubicle walls, the victim exclaimed, causing the accused to run out of the toilet.

Confrontation

The victim later found Jathavaram at the block’s canteen and demanded to view his mobile phone.

Jathavaram handed his phone over, which contained three separate videos of different men using the toilet in the block.

The videos were filmed on separate occasions in January 2026.

Deleted

Knowing police would investigate him after he was caught, Jathavaram proceeded to delete all four videos from his phone.

As a result, the degree of the victims' privacy violated and whether the videos captured their genital regions were unclear.

He was arrested on the same day and was released on bail on Jan. 27.

Charges

Jathavaram began his sentence on May 11.

He could have been jailed up to two years, fined, caned, or faced any combination of the punishments.