Dubai: A court has cleared two workers of cheating a pub dancer and forcing her to have sex with a clubber for Dh2,000 at a five star hotel.
The Dubai Court of First Instance acquitted the two Indian workers, 31-year-old S.J. and 29-year-old S.D., of exploiting the Indian dancer and forcing her into the sex trade under threat.
Due to lack of corroborated evidence, the court acquitted the defendants who had pleaded not guilty and denied the charges.
Prosecutors alleged that the suspects threatened to starve the 23-year-old dancer and warned that they will beat and lock her up if she refused to have sex with men.
"No I didn't do that… I am innocent," argued S.J. when he appeared in court.
S.D. also pleaded not guilty.
According to the chargesheet, the suspects, who ran a hotel pub, violated the human trafficking law by exploiting the dancer, J.M.'s, poverty and the fact that she didn't know the country's conditions before they forced her to work as prostitute.
They employed her to sleep with men for money which they kept for themselves.
Records said S.J. brought J.M. to work a dancer in the pub which he managed. Later he arranged for a 33-year-old Pakistani visitor to have sex with her for Dh2,000 without her consent.
The Pakistani visitor said he did not have sex with the woman.
The pub's owner testified that the pub's activity is for dancing and not for prostitution.
The primary judgment remains subject to appeal within ten days.
