Fake 'CID' kidnaps girl, gropes her

An Egyptian businessman allegedly claimed to be a CID officer and kidnapped a student who was in a car with her friend reviewing preparations for their exam, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.
 
NS, 21, Indian, told police that she was reviewing something academic with her friend in his  car at around 4.30pm in Qusais while waiting for another friend to come and go to the university.
 
“I was sitting in the front seat and my friend in the driver’s seat. We were reviewing some academic material in preparation for the exam and my laptop was between me and my friend. Suddenly, a man approached us and knocked on the glass of the car’s door. My friend unlocked the door and the man opened the door and peeped into the car. He claimed that he is a CID officer and showed a card we could not see,” the girl told the police.
 
The man asked the two what they were doing.
 
“I told him and showed him that we were reviewing for the exam but he cunningly said that he knew what we were doing,” the girl said.
 
The man then asked the two youths for their IDs which they gave to him.
 
He returned the boy’s ID card and asked him to drive away while he asked the girl to get into his car to drop her back home.
 
“I told him that I will go back home myself but he insisted and threatened me that he will inform the police if I did not. Since only two hours were left for the exam, I entered his car and sat on the front seat.
 
The ‘CID’ roamed around in the area and when the girl asked him why he is roaming around and told him that her house is very near, he entered a sandy area.
 
“At that time, my friend called me and so the ‘CID’ officer snatched my mobile and rubbed my shoulder while saying that my friend had done that to me. He also groped by legs, saying the same thing.
 
“When he stopped the car, he inserted his hand under my shirt and groped my breast. Then he pulled up his ‘kandoura’ and tried to force me to grope his private parts. Just then a pedestrian passed by and he left my hand and let me get out of the car. However, I had to give him my mobile number to let me go,” the girl testified.
 
However, before setting her free, the groper threatened the girl with informing the police if she did not obey his orders or if he sees her again with her friend.
 
“After a while he called me and told me that he wants to return my ID. I waited for him and he gave me the card and left the place.”
 
The girl’s friend was waiting in the area. When she got off the accused’s car, she called her friend and then walked towards his car. The two went to the university and sat for their exam.
 
“After taking the exam, the accused called me and asked me to see him, threatening me that he had a video of me with him in the car. I refused to go and hung up the phone. Two days later, he called and I asked my friend to answer his call. He told my friend that he had deleted the video and that he will never call me again, so I informed the police,” the girl told investigators.
 
MJ, 23, Indian, the girl’s friend, repeated corroborative testimonies.
 
“The ‘CID’ officer falsely accused us of being in an immoral position and threatened to inform the police before asking my friend to get off the car. He pretended taking my car’s number and reporting it to the police. He threatened me with informing the police about me if he saw me again. I left the place after noting his car’s number,” the girl’s friend told investigators.
 
“I roamed the area looking for his car. After about 20 minutes my friend called me and told me what the ‘officer’ had done to her. After the exam, my friend got a call from her groper who asked her to go out with him and his friend, threatening her with a video he recorded while she was with him in his car. My friend refused to go and so we informed ‘Al Ameen’ service who asked us to communicate with them when the groper calls my friend. When he called her, we reported the incident to the police station,” he added.
 
Police arrested SM, 30, and he claimed that as he had seen the two in an immoral position in front of his house and that he had only advised them not to repeat the offence.
 
SM denied groping the girl. However, he admitted that the mobile number he used was his friend’s.

The court will reconvene on September 2.
 

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