UAE | Crime
Dog trainer jailed for stealing bags of rice
Removed goods worth Dh7,500 from sponsor's warehouse in Abu Hail.
- By Bassam Za'za', Senior Reporter
- Published: 23:30 October 6, 2009
Dubai: An Indian dog trainer has been jailed for three months for stealing 25 bags of rice worth Dh7,500, meanwhile an Indian cook has been cleared of the same crime due to lack of evidence.
The Dubai Court of First Instance found the 39-year-old dog trainer, Z.R., guilty of theft and sentenced him to three months in jail followed by deportation.
Presiding Judge Al Saeed Mohammad Barghout acquitted the 48-year-old cook, S.A., of conspiring with the accused and stealing 25 bags of rice, worth Dh300 each, from their sponsor's warehouse.
"I didn't steal any rice ... I am not guilty," S.A. said when he defended himself in court.
Z.R. pleaded guilty and said: "I did steal the rice bags. I am guilty."
The Public Prosecution charged S.A. and Z.R. with stealing rice bags worth a total of Dh7,500.
A 38-year-old Emirati merchant told prosecutors that the defendants, who worked for his father, stole the rice from the warehouse in Abu Hail.
"My father moved out to a new house in Al Khawaneej and they remained living and working in Abu Hail. My father had left 25 jute bags containing rice in the warehouse. One day I checked on the jute bags and discovered that they were missing.
"One of my dad's workers claimed that the dog trainer stole the rice. When I confronted him, Z.R. confessed that he stole four bags and he handed them to his friends for free.
"Z.R. said S.A. took the rest of the rice bags. S.A. denied the allegations when I confronted him. The cook was the only one allowed to go in to the warehouse," the merchant claimed.
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