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Dubai: An engineer has been acquitted of threatening to kill his wife and slandering her since the evidence was uncorroborated.
The Dubai Court of First Instance cleared the 38-year-old Indian engineer, A.M., who earlier denied charges of slander and threats to kill his compatriot wife.
The criminal ruling comes only a few weeks after a Sharia court dismissed his wife's request for a divorce.
The engineer pleaded not guilty to threatening to burn and kill his wife, 32, by causing a car accident if she did not recommit herself to their marriage, and to defame her, on her cell phone, by wrongfully accusing her of sleeping with two men, as charged by the Public Prosecution.
Denial
When the judge confronted him with the charges, the engineer shook his head and denied everything.
The Dubai Sharia Court of Appeal earlier dismissed the wife's claim for divorce because she had failed to notify him in a proper manner. The Dubai Sharia Court of First Instance had granted her divorce, but the husband appealed that ruling.
He convinced the Sharia Court of Appeal that his wife knew his residential address and contact details but she failed to notify him properly.
In her statement to the Public Prosecution, which was taken before the Sharia Court of Appeal's ruling and read out yesterday, the wife testified: "We got married more than two years ago. Thereafter he repeatedly harassed and belittled me over the phone, especially by wrongfully accusing me of having sex with two other men ... he threatened to kill me by planning a traffic accident if I failed to return to him."
The ruling is subject to appeal.
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