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28 March 2024

Four admit stealing power cables from company

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By Eman Al Baik

Four jobless Pakistanis allegedly burglarised a sanitary and electro-mechanic company using a screw driver and stole electricity cables of Dh40,000 value.

Mohammed Elias, 45, Bangladeshi supervisor, testified that on November 9, 2010 that his brother who first arrived to the company located at Al Rifaa area and notified him that the door was broken. "I rushed following the telephone call I received from my brother and checking what has missing, I found out that electricity cables of Dh40,000 value were missing."

Lieutenant Ali Saeed, testified that investigating the complaint police identified BKM, AHM, MON and WAK aged between 22 and 33. A number of thefts were committed in Naif area using the same modus operandi.

The first three suspects have admitted the theft and confessed that WAK had participated in this theft.

WAK who was arrested on the next day at Al Mateena area has also confessed to the accusation.

Mohsen Mohammed, policeman testified that BKM led police to the location of the company where they committed a theft and it was the same company that had logged a theft complaint.

The Prosecution asked the Court to apply stiffest penalty against them.

The first three accused are also detained for another similar case that will be convicted on April 4.

The Court adjourned the case till April 17.

 

Man acquitted after finding non-grow-able poppy seeds

The Dubai Court of Appeal acquitted a British from possessing poppy seeds valid for growing.

FR, passenger, was sentenced by the Frist Instance Court to ten years in jail followed by deportation for convicting him guilty for smuggling and possessing grow-able poppy seeds that were confiscated upon his arrival at Dubai International Airport.

In the previous hearing, the Court ordered investigation that whether the confiscated poppy seeds were valid for planting and growing or not.

FR denied the accusation before the First Instance Court and said that he has bought the pack for his mother in India to use for cooking… "I he bought poppy from the UK because the company he has bought the seeds from is very famous with its good spices… the pack was sealed and produced by a famous company there."

The convict appealed the verdict claiming that the seeds are not valid for plantation.

His lawyer Saeed Al Ghailani told the Appeal court that his client has bought the seeds and were packed by a well-known company. He has bought them from a famous shop for selling spices in the UK. "It is very well known that the UK is a country that fights drugs… How it comes that a company there is selling grow-able poppy seeds and misleads customers by selling them drug items?

The lawyer has suspected the authenticity of the criminal evidences report saying that the pack has clearly carried the phrase that the seeds are chemically treated. "This means that the seeds have been exposed to high temperatures and was added preservatives. All that made the seeds non grow-able. The Criminal laboratory cannot be an agricultural expert," Al Ghailani told the Court.

"My client who has been living in the UK as a programmer was not hiding the seeds and the pack which is of 48.8gms were placed apparently in his luggage. I ask the court to acquit my client as the accusation is baseless," defended Al Ghailani.

The Court adjourned the case to next week to hear the testimony of the Criminal evidences’ expert to clarify the contradiction of the statements came in the report and the seed’s pack which proves that they have been chemically treated since the crime does not commence should the seeds were non grow-able.

The Court of First Instance has based in its verdict on the Criminal Evidence report which said that the confiscated poppy seeds were valid for plantation and growing and that it is one of the substances that are banned off possessing and growing (planting) in the list No.4 of the Federal Law for Fighting Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.

The Appeal Court found out that the confiscated poppy seeds were not valid for plantation and awarded the convict acquittal.