Bhupindar Singh a/l Gurcharan Singh Preet

On the judicial record

A guide to how a High Court judge handles serious crime — drug trafficking, robbery, murder and corruption under the Penal Code, Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 — and the concurrent-or-consecutive sentencing questions it raises, alongside a civil list.

Bhupindar Singh a/l Gurcharan Singh Preet sits in the High Court, and this collection combines criminal and civil work, authored in a mix of English and Bahasa Malaysia. On the criminal side, drug prosecutions under seksyen 39B Akta Dadah Berbahaya 1952 (section 39B of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952) recur, including matters resolved on a plea of guilty and matters in which an accused was offered a lesser alternative charge. Robbery features through group-robbery offences under seksyen 392 Kanun Keseksaan (section 392 of the Penal Code) and the sentencing question whether punishments for two separate cases should run concurrently or consecutively. Homicide appears through a plea of guilty to murder under section 302 of the Penal Code and the court's task in passing sentence. Corruption is addressed where a police officer was charged with receiving gratification and the court applied the presumption under section 50(1) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 once receipt was established. On the civil side, contract disputes turn on offer, acceptance and counter-offer in the sale of land and whether a purchaser's acceptance was conditional, and on whether an oral assurance by a representative of a State Government formed a binding contract. Judicial review, tort and employment matters round out the range. The judgments set out the charge or claim, work through the evidence, and record the disposition in its operative terms, glossing the Malay where it appears. Accused persons and private litigants are referred to by role; corporate, governmental and statutory parties are named. A recurring theme is the court's careful treatment of the sentencing exercise, particularly whether sentences should be concurrent or consecutive, and its attention to whether a statutory presumption or a plea of guilty has been properly established before sentence is passed. The collection is a useful guide to how a High Court judge handles serious crime and the sentencing questions it raises alongside a general civil list of contract and public-law disputes.