Dubai: A technician has been accused of killing his supervisor because he had disapproved his request to go on leave, a court heard on Sunday.

The 25-year-old Pakistani technician was said to have submitted a request for leave but could not travel because his Indian supervisor disapproved the request in August.

A week after having submitted the leave request, the 25-year-old technician went to find out if his Indian supervisor, according to records, had approved his leave request but he didn’t get a response.

When the technician tried to discuss the issue with his supervisor, the latter, who was believed to have rejected his leave request, refused to speak to him.

Records said the suspect who was angered by his supervisor’s response to his leave request had a heated argument with him, after which he killed his supervisor and tried to kill another co-worker.

Upon arriving at the murder scene at a labour accommodation in Jebel Ali industrial area, police found that the co-worker had restrained the suspect, who had tried to kill him with the same knife with which he killed the supervisor.

Prosecutors accused the suspect of premeditatedly killing his supervisor and bid to kill his co-worker.

The suspect pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday.

“No, I did not,” the suspect was heard repeatedly telling presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi.

According to the charges sheet, prosecutors said the suspect had planned to murder his supervisor in advance and once he bumped into him, he stabbed him repeatedly with a knife and killed him. He also attacked his co-worker with the same knife.

Dubai Police forensic examiner confirmed that the victim succumbed to fatal knife wounds in the aorta, kidney and lungs.

A police brigadier told prosecutors that on-site investigations confirmed that the suspect killed his supervisor due to work-related and accommodation problems.

“A witness, who was interrogated at the crime scene, alleged that the suspect had had hidden the knife it in his dress. When we arrived at the crime scene, the co-worker had restrained the suspect, whose hands and clothes were covered in blood,” the brigadier prosecutors.

The suspect was quoted as admitting to prosecutors that he had requested to go on leave one week before the incident but when the supervisor refused his leave request and scolded him, he got angry and stabbed him.

Presiding judge Al Shamsi adjourned the case until the court appoints a lawyer to defend the suspect on January 14.