THE man accused of calling the police to say the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino was rigged to blow up has had the charge against him withdrawn.
Mr Fang Xing Chi, 30, walked out of court a free man yesterday.
The prosecution gave no reason in court for dropping the case.
However, the police said last night they had charged Mr Fang in the light of the seriousness of the offence. But after further investigations, they applied for the prosecution to drop the charges as they could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Mr Fang is aggrieved at having been made to spend a week in a Jurong police station lock-up while investigations were ongoing.
Saying he had suffered mentally and physically as a result of being wrongly accused of the prank call, he added: 'In the lock-up, they provided me super lousy food.