Woman caught in hotel for prostitution, court hears

dubai — A woman has been charged at the dubai Court of First instance with working in prostitution.

According to public prosecution records, the 36-year-old Pakistani woman, an accountant, was caught in a sting operation at a hotel room shortly after she met a police informant and collected dh2,000 from him for sex.

Prosecutors urged the court to give her the strictest penalty possible as per the law.

The case dates back to and prior to August 7 in Naif area.

A policeman said during the prosecution investigation that they learned from a source that the defendant was working in prostitution. “We set up a task force to verify that information. We got a public prosecution warrant for search and arrest. We also arranged for a location so that to catch her red-handed.”

The same source contacted the woman and agreed they would have sex for dh2,000. “A driver dropped her at the hotel and waited for her outside. We raided the room shortly after she got inside. A policewoman told her to put her clothes on and to hand over the cash she just collected. The defendant then took it out of her purse,” the officer said.

The officer told the prosecutor the woman confessed she went to the hotel to have sex for money. “She admitted she had done it several times before for different amounts of cash.” A verdict will be pronounced on November 26.