Two in court over sale of mobile phone number

Abdulrahman Saeed, Staff Reporter

A young man offered a phone number for sale on Instagram for Dhs8,000 so a person contacted him and expressed his desire to buy it.

Then the latter handed the seller Dhs2,000 and the seller gave up the number.

However, the buyer delayed paying the rest of the amount so the owner of the phone number filed a lawsuit against two persons.

He demanded that they jointly are obligated to pay him Dhs6,000 and the legal interest of 12% from the date of the claim until full payment, besides the fees and expenses of the lawsuit.

He also demanded to terminate the oral contract between him and the first appellee.

The appellant said that after he transferred the number in the name of the second appellee, the first gave him Dhs2,000 and delayed paying the remaining amount (Dhs6,000).

The court made the appellant perform the decisive oath to swear that the first appellee did not gave him the remaining Dhs6,000.

It stated that it had reviewed the WhatsApp messages between the appellant and the first appellee, which constituted preliminary evidence, then it made the appellant swear that he did not receive the Dhs6,000, and accordingly, it was proved that he was entitled to it.

The court added that the first appellee did not appear in court to present his defence, despite his being officially informed.

Then it obligated him to pay the appellant Dhs6,000 and rejected the case against the second because there was no evidence against him, as his role was only registering the number in his name.