Man denies insulting customer

abu dhabi — A woman has accused a businessman of abusing and insulting her in a WhatsApp message where he described her as a ‘jinx’.

The Emirati woman told an Abu Dhabi court that she was waiting for the Arab defendant and his workers to go to Mussafah area where they had to complete a business deal during the evening after she was done with the day’s work.

She said she then suddenly received a WhatsApp text from the defendant, in which he wrote asking one of his workers to go to Musaffah with the jinx (referring to her).

The woman said the businessman was sending the message to his worker, but he mistakenly sent it to her phone number. She said she was shocked by the message and wondered as to why the man would describe her that way.

The woman then filed a complaint against the man stressing that she was greatly affected and psychologically tortured by the man’s abusive text. The man was shocked when he learned that the abusive text he had sent accidentally landed to the Emirati woman’s phone and not to his worker.

Prosecutors charged the Arab man with insulting the woman and violating online law. “I only dealt with him for business. But the man abused and undermined me so much. There was no reason for him doing that and I won’t pardon him,” the woman said in court.

“He’s such a bad mannered person. I had visited his store and saw how he behaved and talked ill about his customers.”

The woman asked court to give the man a tough punishment. The businessman denied the charges when he appeared in court.

He said it was a typing error and that he didn’t mean to abuse or insult the woman. The man said the complainant was a customer at his store and that they had both struck a business deal worth Dh77,000 for which she had already paid Dh55,000.

The trial was adjourned until November 20 for the verdict.