Dubai: A sales executive has been accused of verbally threatening a mother, saying that he would dishonour her daughter if she did not allow him to marry the daughter.
The 24-year-old Syrian executive, R.K., was said to have stopped the Jordanian mother in August while walking out of a grocery store and threatened to make the daughter pay the price if the mother insisted on their not getting married.
Prosecutors accused the defendant of verbally threatening to harm the daughter and ruin her reputation.
The suspect entered a not guilty plea when he showed up before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Wednesday.
“No, Sir … that did not happen at all,” R.K., who is on bail, told presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi in court.
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the suspect threatened the mother by saying that he would dishonour the daughter if the mother refused to consent to their marriage.
The Jordanian mother claimed to prosecutors that she and her daughter had lodged numerous complaints against the suspect.
“We had earlier rejected him and refused to allow him to get engaged to our daughter … since then he constantly caused us trouble. He threatened my daughter and son in previous incidents and we complained several time at Al Rashidiya police station. Police made him sign a number of undertakings in which he promised not to stalk or threaten any of us or approach us again. On the day of the incident, I left the grocery and was walking back home. The suspect saw me and told me ‘I swear by God that your daughter’s honour will be the price that she would pay for that’. I believe that he meant that he would rape my girl,” the mother said in her prosecution statement.
The Syrian was quoted telling prosecutors that he signed two undertakings at the police station in which he promised not to harass the daughter or threaten her again.
Presiding judge Al Shamsi adjourned the case until the suspect hires a lawyer to defend him when the court reconvenes on October 25.
