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Dubai: A man has been cleared of locking his wife in her bedroom for three days where she claimed to have survived by drinking tap water.
Dubai Court of First Instance acquitted the 27-year-old Indian husband, M.K., of unlawfully detaining his compatriot wife due to uncorroborated evidence.
The court dismissed his 24-year-old wife's allegations, claimed the only way she survived was by drinking water from the en suite bathroom.
Abuse
The Public Prosecution charged M.K., a merchant, with unlawfully detaining his wife and threatening to kill her if she returned to their house, and assaulting her. When the judge confronted him with the charges, he repeatedly said: "Not guilty ... not guilty."
His wife, K.S., told the Public Prosecution: "Ever since we got married he has been quarrelling with me and constantly beating me up. One day he stormed into the kitchen where I was standing. He pushed me and I cut my left arm with the knife which I was using. Then he locked me in my bedroom and I kept on drinking water from the faucets in the washroom to survive."
She testified her husband had threatened her "if she ever reported that matter to her parents or the police".
"While he drove me to my parents' house once, he slapped me in the face when I asked him not to keep me there. The second day when I went to pick up my belongings, he threatened to kill me. He said he would kill me if I ever returned home," she said.
A Pakistani driver who drove K.S. to the suspect's house said he saw her crying.
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