SINGAPORE - Members of the public can make a citizen's arrest if they see a crime being committed but they must not break any laws in the process, said lawyers.
Their comments come after an incident on Nov 1 when a 46-year-old man died after being subdued by five passers-by, one of whom said he had seen the man taking upskirt videos of a woman at Little India MRT station.
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