SINGAPORE: A 25-year-old woman was arrested on Jan 22 for mistreating her boarding pass to go into the transit area of Changi Airport to meet her idol from a South Korean young boy band.
Investigations revealed that the woman had actually purportedly gotten an air ticket to obtain a boarding pass to ensure that she can go into the transit area, the authorities claimed in a launch on Feb 8.
The Straits Times recognizes that the woman was attempting to meet the K-pop team Enhypen, that had actually done 2 programs in Singapore on Jan 20 and 21.
The authorities claimed the woman was arrested due to the fact that she had no purpose to leave Singapore.
This breaks the Infrastructure Protection Act 2017, which restricts the abuse of boarding passes to go into safeguarded locations in the airport terminal, authorities included.
Police examinations are continuous.
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