Dubai: A human trafficking suspect stunned a court on Thursday when he tried to strangle himself with a scarf.
“Today, there is no judgment…then better I kill myself,” whispered the Indian suspect, K.K., in Hindi when he addressed the Dubai Court of First Instance’s translator Abdul Qader Jeelani.
Immediately after Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif Abdul Jawad adjourned the case until April 12 because four witnesses failed to attend, K.K. was heard speaking to Jeelani.
Then he was spotted desperately attempting to strangle himself by deliberately pulling both sides of his scarf around his neck.
A number of jail guards and policemen who stood behind K.K. and two other Indian suspected associates in the dock swiftly intervened and foiled K.K.’s suicide attempt.
Meanwhile a policewoman was heard shouting ‘stop him’ from the end of courtroom four.
Two jail guards then escorted K.K. back to detention after they untied the scarf and took it away from him.
It is believed that K.K. attempted to kill himself to express his desperation with the delay in court proceedings.
