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Divorced couple in the dock again over filthy cellphone-text exchange
A recently divorced couple has denied exchanging dirty text messages on each others cell-phones when they appeared in court on Thursday.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:56 October 30, 2008
Dubai: A recently divorced couple has denied exchanging dirty text messages on each others cell-phones when they appeared in court on Thursday.
The 42-year-old Iraqi doctor and his 30-year-old ex-wife dismissed the charge of cursing and defaming each other and pleaded not guilty when they stood before the Dubai Court of Misdemeanour.
The Public Prosecution charged the doctor and his ex-wife, a saleswoman, with verbally abusing each other and exchanging foul language. The woman rejected her accusation and said it didn't happen. Her ex-husband also denied his charge.
Records said the doctor reportedly called his wife bad names and alleged that he caught her committing adultery. The saleswoman supposedly sent dirty text messages to her divorcee's mobile-phone. The couple denied their charges and will hand in their defences soon.
A Sharia Court recently granted the couple an irrevocable divorce. Moreover, the saleswoman appeared last week before the Dubai Court of First Instance where she was being charged for forging the ex-husband's signature on a sponsorship transfer application which she used to apply for a new job.
The man testified that the first time he divorced the saleswoman was in June 2007 before she returned to him in August of the same year.
"We fought again and on the day when we were scheduled to meet a family counsellor at the Family Guidance and Reconciliation Section, I asked her over the phone to repay me an amount of Dh240,000 which I had given her earlier. She denied owing me any money and claimed she transferred her sponsorship," alleged the ex-husband.
Records said the doctor reportedly called his wife bad names and alleged that he caught her committing adultery. The saleswoman is also said to have sent dirty text messages to her ex-husband's mobile-phone. The couple denied their charges and will hand in their defences soon.
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