Dubai: Two men have been accused of posing as policemen, and forcing a cleaner into their vehicle and driving him to Abu Dhabi for unknown reasons. The Pakistani men, a 28-year-old unemployed man and a 31-year-old salesman, were said to have stopped the Indian cleaner on the streets in Karama in November and pretended that they were policemen.
The duo stopped the cleaner, who was busy talking on his phone in an alley, according to records, and asked him for his identification papers.
The two men are said to have shown him two cards that they claimed to be police IDs. They then grabbed the man, pushed him into a vehicle and drove off.
The men drove the cleaner to Abu Dhabi and handed him over to two other men who turned out to be policemen.
Records did not mention the reason why the two men had forced the man into their vehicle and driven him to Abu Dhabi.
Prosecutors accused the suspects of impersonating police officers and kidnapping the cleaner.
The duo pleaded not guilty and refuted the accusations when they appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.
The cleaner testified to prosecutors that the suspects stopped him in the alley and claimed to be policemen.
“When they asked me for identification papers, I told them that I had been staying in the country illegally since I had entered illegally. They kidnapped me and took me to the capital … then they handed me over to two other men, who turned out to be policemen. Those men drove me to a police station and did not react when I told them that I had been kidnapped from Dubai by the suspects,” he claimed to prosecutors.
The trial is slated to continue.
