Dubai Police bust 'drugs in school' BBM, Tweets

Dubai’s schools are clean of any drugs and reports about the distribution of some types of banned substances in those schools are incorrect, Dubai’s police said.

In a statement issued on its Twitter page late Tuesday, the Dubai police command dismissed rumors circulated on Blackberry phones and Twitter in the UAE that crystal methamphetamine is widespread in the emirate’s schools.

“What has been circulated on Blackberry handsets and Twitter about the distribution of crystal drugs in Dubai’s schools is totally untrue,” it said.

The brief statement gave no other details but a senior police officer warned last week that some unbanned drug-like substances are widespread in the emirate’s universities. But he added such substances have not reached schools.

Man to be lashed, jailed for raping teen girl

A Saudi court sentenced a 35-year-old Iranian man of a Saudi mother to one year in prison and 100 lashes with the whip and ordered his deportation from the Gulf kingdom after he was convicted of raping a teen age girl many times.

The man denied the rape charges and said he had a relationship with the girl with her consent. But the 15-year-old girl insisted in court she was abducted by the defendant at knife-point before she was raped many times.

“Test showed the girl lost her virginity…with tears in her eyes, she told the judge that she did not have an affair with the defendant and that she was walking near her house when he stopped the car near her and pushed her in after threatening her with a knife,” Sharq Arabic language daily said.

It said the unnamed defendant from the predominantly-Shiite eastern province of Qatif also told the judge he plans to marry the girl.

“But the judge told him the court does not interfere in such a case and it will leave it up to the two concerned parties,” the paper said.

Court foils woman’s bid to seize dad’s wealth

A court in Ras Al Khaimah rejected a plea by an Arab woman to take control of her father’s wealth on the grounds he surpassed 100 years and was no longer able to manage, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The unidentified woman told court that she wanted to preserve her father’s wealth as he was too old to behave properly after reaching 103 years.

“After several sessions, the court rejected the woman’s plea on the basis of a medical report which showed her father still enjoys sound mental ability that allows him to manage his funds,” Alkhaleej daily said.

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