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19 March 2024

Cabbie tries to molest sleeping passenger

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By Eman Al Baik

A Pakistani taxi driver allegedly tried to take advantage of a drunken woman passenger who fell asleep in his car by stopping the car off the road and trying have sex with her, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

On April 15 at around 4.30am, the 22-year-old Lebanese passenger NR took a taxi with her male friend from a hotel near Dubai Mall.

After her friend got off the taxi at his house down town, she asked the driver to drop her at her house at Jumeira Lake Towers before lying on the back seat and falling asleep as she was under the influence of alcohol.

“Suddenly, I felt someone sitting on me with his head down and trying to put a pillow under my head. I tried to raise my head but he pushed me back several times. The driver got scared when a car stopped in front of the taxi. He got off the vehicle and drove to my location. I got off the taxi and he disappeared,” the woman told investigators.

NR called the police who rushed to her location. She lodged a complaint against the taxi driver who was arrested based on the details of the car she gave to the police.

The court will give its sentence on October 22.