A man, who cursed the woman friend of his wife after he was asked to leave the birthday party of his son at a private ballroom, was fined Dh3,000.
The Indian man visited the ballroom to attend his son’s birthday party when he was surprised that his wife had invited friends, including one with whom he had had a fight in November.
The man saw his wife’s friend at the party and told her [wife] to ask the friend to leave.
The wife instead asked the man to leave his son’s birthday party in Mirdif.
While walking out of the ballroom, the man had a heated argument with the friend, who said that he cursed her.The Dubai Misdemeanours Court convicted the man of cursing the victim despite his having refuted her allegations that he had cursed her.
“I did not curse her,” he told the court.
The defendant’s lawyer argued in court that the woman’s allegations were malicious.
“My client had had a previous altercation with the woman. She had been inciting the wife to divorce my client. There is a current divorce case and custody battle before Dubai Courts between the husband and his wife. The victim [in this case] is a witness in the divorce lawsuit and she is siding with the wife,” argued the lawyer.
Due to previous confrontations between the friend and the defendant, according to the lawyer, his client asked his wife to ask the woman to leave but instead he was asked to go.
“CCTV cameras available in the premises clearly showed that the woman is the one who pushed my client. She pushed him out of the ballroom. She got angry when the security guards, who were present at the ballroom, mentioned in their first written report [about the incident] that she was mistaken. Later she forced them to rewrite the report and mention that my client had offended her. She didn’t specify what foul language my client used against her. She reported the matter one day late,” he contended.
The woman claimed initially that she had 14 witnesses who had witnessed the suspect offending her but she ended up presenting one witness, argued the lawyer.
The ruling is final.
By Bassam Za'za'
