Dubai: A man has been jailed for three months for assaulting a businessman with knife and injuring his hand after the latter refused to lend him money.
The 34-year-old Bangladeshi man dragged out the knife from under his jacket and stabbed his countryman businessman shortly after the victim refused to give him money in May.
The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the defendant of assaulting the businessman and fined him Dh3,000.
“The knife that the defendant used to stab the victim will be confiscated,” said presiding judge Mohammad Jamal on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old accused had pleaded not guilty and contended that he acted in self-defence when the victim assaulted him.
The businessman testified that the defendant came up to him at 11.40pm and asked him to lend him money in Al Nakheel.
“I did not owe him any money and so I refused to give him any. He got outraged, took out a knife that he hid in his jacket and tried to stab me in the stomach. I evaded the knife to protect myself but I sustained an injury in my left hand. Police were summoned to the location,” he testified to prosecutors.
A Bangladeshi witness said the accused was outraged when the victim refused to lend him money.
A policeman sergeant testified that when they reached the crime scene, the victim was bleeding profusely from his hand.
“Meanwhile another person had restrained the defendant. Witnesses claimed that the defendant insisted on the victim lending him money before he stabbed him. Upon confronting the accused, he alleged that the victim owed him money and had refused to pay him back,” the sergeant said.
The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.
