Dubai: A supervisor has been accused of headbutting policemen and assaulting them when they tried to apprehend him for being wanted to hand over his daughter’s passport to his divorcee.

Three policemen were said to have been dispatched to apprehend the 32-year-old Egyptian supervisor, who was subpoenaed by Dubai Court to surrender his daughter’s passport to be handed over to his ex-wife in July.

The Egyptian had just walked out of a building in Al Hudaiba area, according to records, when the three policemen stopped him, introduced themselves by presenting their police IDs and asked him to sit in the police car because he had been subpoenaed by Dubai Court.

The supervisor suddenly started shouting and yelling before he turned physically violent and indulged in an altercation with the three policemen who tried to restrain him.

The 32-year-old man resisted the three policemen, headbutted one of them, twisted the arm of another and also pushed the third before he broke loose and ran back into the same building.

The policemen called for a backup and once the other police patrol arrived, the Egyptian man walked out of the building again only this time he had an injury on his chest and his clothes were torn apart.

When the police tried to handcuff him the second time, he also turned physically violent and resisted arrest before he was brought under control and put inside the police car, said records.

Prosecutors charged the suspect with assaulting policemen and resisting arrest.

The 32-year-old suspect strongly refuted accusations and pleaded not guilty when he appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Monday.

“I did not assault them … they wanted to apprehend me and they are the ones who beat me first. My wife [the divorce was still under process in court] was present there with her, who had claimed to be a lawyer. The so-called lawyer had allegedly told policemen that he works in a shaikh’s office … he was not a lawyer and he was the lover of my wife,” the suspect contended before presiding judge Urfan Omar.

One of the assaulted policemen claimed to prosecutors that the suspect was wanted because Dubai Courts had subpoenaed him.

“Once he walked out of the building, we asked him to come with us because he was wanted … we showed him our police IDs and asked him to sit in the car. He shouted and resisted his arrest. He assaulted us and headbutted me … he pushed one of my partners and twisted the arm of the other and ran away. We called for more police force and when he walked out of the building, his clothes were torn and he had an injury on his chest although when he ran back into the building, he was safe and sound,” the policeman told prosecutors.

A witness [the man who was present with the suspect’s ex-wife at the time of the arrest] told prosecutors: “I know the divorcee from before and was aware of the situation with the suspect. I was helping her and notified the police about the suspect’s whereabouts since he was wanted by Dubai Court. The court had issued an arrest warrant to execute a previous Sharia Court ruling ordering the husband [suspect] to hand over his daughter’s passport. I also saw him beating the policemen and resisting arrest.”

The court will reconvene on October 19 to hear prosecution witnesses.