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28 March 2024

Teen to pay Dh600,000 blood money

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The UAE’s top court overturned a court sentence and ordered an Emirati teenager to pay Dh600,000 diya (blood money) to the families of three men killed in a road accident caused by his reckless driving.

A Court of First Instance ordered the 16-year-old to pay the diya but an Appeals Court abolished that ruling and ordered handing over the boy to his relatives in return for a statement that they will correct him.

But the prosecutor appealed that sentence with the Federal Supreme Court, which ordered the boy to pay Dh600,000 after finding him guilty of causing the road mishap that killed the three men.

Newspapers did not mention where in the UAE the accident took place.