Dubai: Prosecutors lost their appeal against a merchant, who was acquitted of forging his late father’s signature on official papers that he submitted to Dubai Municipality to expand the family’s house.
In April, the Dubai Court of First Instance acquitted the Kuwaiti merchant of forging his father’s stamp and signature on the submitted papers due to lack of evidence.
Prosecutors appealed the primary ruling before the Dubai Appeal Court and sought to have the man’s acquittal overturned and have him punished.
When he showed up before the appellate court, the merchant renewed his not-guilty plea and denied the accusation of forging the signature on the official papers permitting an extension to the family’s house.
He confirmed to the appellate court that the signature was not forged.
Presiding judge Saeed Salem Bin Sarm dismissed prosecutors’ appeal and upheld the Kuwaiti’s acquittal.
Prosecutors had charged the Kuwaiti with forging his dead father’s personal stamp and signing on his behalf on the papers that he submitted to Dubai Municipality and the consultative engineer to start the extension work in 2013.
The man denied prosecutors’ charges. His lawyer argued that the stamp was not the father’s personal stamp and it was the trade name of the father’s sole proprietor company registered at the Department of Economic Development in Dubai.
