Schoolboy pretended to be Singapore minister

A 15-year-old boy was sentenced to 240 hours of community service for pretending to be Singapore's education minister in an e-mail to his principal that demanded the expulsion of two fellow students.

The student was caught after he mistakenly forwarded the message to the minister he was impersonating, former Education Minister Teo Chee Hean, The Straits Times newspaper reported.