Two impersonate CID to steal and wound five

Two jobless Emiratis allegedly pretended to be police officers and assaulted five Bangladeshis with a knife and attempted to steal from them at their accommodation, the Dubai Criminal Court heard. According to the accusation sheet, AKI, 21, is accused of assaulting by a knife Abdulasalam Azhar, Sheikh Mohammed, and Abdulrahman Amin. HIH, 46, is accused of pretending to be a police officer for the sake of stealing from the three in addition to Mohammed Bashir and Mohammed Abbas at their accommodation. At around 2.30pm on December 21, 2009, HIH entered the accommodation at Al Satwa area behind Picnic restaurant by claiming to be a CID officer and asked them to give their wallets. Then AKI stressed on the demand and pulled a knife to scare them as they did not obey. He used the knife and wounded three of the five men. Abdulsalam Azhar, 32, salesman, testified that they were talking in Urdu. "A man knocked at the door claiming to be from CID and asked us to present our IDs, mobile phones and wallets and repeated that he is a CID officer. Some of us obeyed and gave their belongings… but I did not…Another man who came a while after the first repeated the demand and asked me why I did not obey…All of a sudden the second man pulled a knife he was hiding under his trousers and attacked us. He wounded my left arm and I fell unconscious.” Shaikh Mohammed 49, salesman, said: “As I also did not give my wallet I received a stab in my left hand from the second man.” Abdulrahman Amin, 38, salesman, testified that he was also stabbed and after the attacker ran away he noticed the missing of Dh260 from his wallet. Mohammed Bashir, 38, salesman and Mohammed Abbas 33, clerk, repeated the same testimony saying that as the second accused started stabbing their colleagues they started screaming “thief... thief” so the attackers ran away. Forensic reported that the first victim received 14cm long wound and a fracture in his arm that required fixing with metal nails. The second victim sustained a wound causing him 10 per cent disability.