Woman kills compatriot over bad cheque complaints filed against her

A 32-year old Pakistani woman allegedly killed a compatriot over bad cheque complaints he filed against her, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

AHM, employee, is accused of stabbing Iftikharuddin Jalal in his chest and belly, causing his death, and stealing two mobile phones of the victim.

Captain Khalid Mubarak testified that on September 17, 2011, police received a notification about a murder in a villa in Rashidiya area. The villa was divided into two parts, one of which was rented to a Filipino family while the other part was rented by a woman, according to a representative of the landlord Abdulkareem Abdulhaleem.

“The victim was lying with his face down in a pool of blood between a bed and a wardrobe,” he testified.

Abdulhaleem, who notified police about the murder, said he had rented the room to a woman called “Zeina”. “I had dealt with Zeina before as I arranged for her a room in Ghusais a year before. She called me and asked me for a place on September 11. We met the following day. She saw the place and agreed to rent it for Dh2,200 a month. I handed her over three copies of the key and she said she would come on Friday with her passport photocopy to finalise the lease.

“On Friday evening, I got a call from her asking me to meet her in the departure section of the airport’s Terminal 2. I went there and met her. She requested me to allow her to use my mobile phone, claiming that she does not have credit in hers. After finishing her call, she told me that she had handed over money to someone to deliver to her sick mother and asked me to lend her Dh300 which I did. She told me that she will meet me in the evening for the villa. As she did not come, I tried to call her but could not get through. Becoming suspicious, I went to the villa and tried to open the door. It did not open with the master key. I left and decided to come with a carpenter to open the door.”

Abdulhaleem came the next day with a carpenter who opened the main door.  The carpenter also opened the bedroom door with some keys he had. “While the carpenter was trying to open a bedroom door, I went to the other part of the villa and asked the family there to come and see the other part to move into it as it is more spacious. At this time, the carpenter managed to open the bedroom door and was shocked to see a man lying in a pool of blood. So I informed the police,” Abdulhaleem told the police officer.

Investigating the case, police found out that Zeina was not her real name. AHM, aged 32, clerk in a private company, is the suspect or the so called Zeina.

AHM had arrived in the country on September 9, 2011 and was arrested by Naif police following complaints of a bad cheque of Dh50,000 filed by the victim.

Investigation of the bad cheque cases showed that the accused had bailed herself out by claiming that the victim had stolen the cheques from her bag and that she had not issued the cheques to him. She claimed that he had forged her signature to put her in trouble as a revenge of not accepting request of sex and offer of marriage.

A few days after she was bailed out by the prosecution, she killed him. Police found out that her accomplice MFI arrived in the country on September 16 and the two pulled the victim into the room by his leg where they killed him premeditatedly.

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