Six jailed for kidnapping, assaulting compatriot
DUBAI: The criminal court on Sunday sentenced six Asians to one year in jail and deportation, on charges of kidnapping and assaulting a compatriot.
The case dates back to August 2021, when an Asian, a friend of the victim, filed a complaint with the police communication, indicating that another Asian detained his friend, conniving with 5 others who assaulted him for 5 days inside a villa in Dubai.
A team of criminal investigations arrested the 6 convicts, and referred them to the Public Prosecution, where they confessed to their crimes.
The victim said that there was financial deals with the main suspect, who invited him to tea, but forced him into his vehicle with the help of the other suspects and took him to the villa where the suspect resided.
They reportedly detained him and assaulted him to force him to repay an amount of money, due to the financial dispute.
The victim added, “They gave me a mobile to call my family in my home country, asking them to send Dhs50,000 as a ransom to set me free. I spoke to my brother, told him what happened, and shared the location of the villa with him. He called one of his friends in Dubai, and the friend communicated with the police.”
Recently, in a separate case, the Dubai Criminal Court sentenced an Asian woman to 3 months in jail to be followed by deportation over assaulting a female police cop while she was on duty.
In the incident that dates back to last May, the convict, 31, entered a police station and spoke to the duty officer in her Asian language, which he does not know. The officer contacted the operations to provide an interpreter over the phone, so he spoke to her.
The convict told the interpreter that she wanted to work in the police and wanted to hire her. According to the officer’s testimony in the investigations, he told the convict that she should apply for a job via specific plaforms and asked her to leave, but she refused. The officer then asked a female police cop to take her (convict) outside the police station. However, the convict assaulted the police cop while taking her out of the police station.
The victim stated that the convict kicked and hit her with her hands, before controlling her and taking her to the women’s detention. She was referred to the Public Prosecution and then to the Criminal Court, where she had been sentenced to three months in jail to be followed by deportation.