Cable theft gets man six months in jail

A Pakistani blacksmith was awarded six months in jail for stealing electricity cables from a construction site by the Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance.

 

MAJ, 38, was not arrested while stealing the cable but when he came again to collect the tools he used and left them behind, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

 

According to the records, on April 20, he came with a fugitive at night to a construction site and stole electricity cables worth Dh6,480 using a scissor, hammer and screw driver.

 

The 43-year-old Safety and Security officer Mohammed Abu Baker testified that one of the workers saw two strangers on the site and could catch one of them while the other fled the site. The one who was caught was carrying a bag contained a scissor, hammer and  screw driver, so police was informed.

 

The worker Jamal Mohammed, 30, Indian, testified that he saw a stranger picking up a bag from the ground.

 

“I suspected him and rushed towards him…I caught him and searched the bag which contained a scissor, hammer and screw driver and small pieces of electricity cables. I asked him why he possesses these stuff and what he is doing in the site. He suddenly pushed me away… But I ran after him and caught him. There was a truck outside the site,” he testified.

 

MAJ confessed to stealing electricity cables with another person and that he came to collect the tools he used in the theft.