Court waives Dhs4,000 fine, keeps one month jail for man who damaged ex-partner's vehicle

Mohammed Yaseen, Staff Reporter

The Dubai Court of Appeal commuted a verdict issued by the Court of First Instance against a Gulf citizen from one-month imprisonment and a Dhs4,000 fine to one month imprisonment only for damaging a Range Rover belonging to his former partner after he tried to hit him on a public road.

The incident took place in Zabeel area when a Gulf citizen filed a report in which he stated that he had been threatened and his vehicle had been damaged by another Gulf citizen.

The victim said the defendant, who was driving a Bentley, swerved abruptly to his direction, adding that he tried to evade the collision.

The victim stated that the driver of the other vehicle was his partner in an auto repair workshop in 2020 but the partnership was terminated later, noting that the defendant caused him several financial problems, some of which were resolved.

The defendant kept chasing him on the public road and asked him to get out of the vehicle but he refused to do so, the victim said.

The defendant, however, took advantage of the red traffic signal get out of his vehicle and break the rear glass of his vehicle with a piece of metal, he added, noting that the defendant kept chasing him on the public road but he managed to escape from him and informed the police accordingly.

According to the official documents, the defendant was summoned but he denied the charge of damaging his former partner’s vehicle, claiming that he requested the victim to get off his vehicle because there were pending financial issues from their previous partnership, which the victim did not want to settle.

Investigations, however, showed that it was the defendant who damaged the victim’s vehicle.