Dubai: A worker was jailed for three months for damaging a police car and beating two policemen who tried to restrain him as he walked half naked and drunk in public.

Streetwalkers spotted the drunk man walking partly undressed in the street and acting rowdily before they reported him to the police in June.

Police were dispatched to the location and when they tried to arrest the 29-year-old Indian worker, he resisted, beat the policemen and kicked them in Naif area.

The Indian was drunk and resisted ferociously when the policemen tried to handcuff him before he also wrecked the handle of the police car’s door.

The policemen then managed to restrain the worker, put him in their car and took him to the police station.

The Dubai Court of First Instance also fined the accused Dh10,000 for beating the two policemen, resisting arrest and intentionally damaging police property and drinking liquor.

The defendant was convicted of deliberately breaking the door handle and causing a damage worth Dh1,033 to a police property.

When he showed up in court, the accused admitted that he had drunk alcohol but refuted the accusation of assaulting two policemen and wrecking the police car.

“I was too drunk and I do not remember what happened that day … I cannot remember how I behaved or what I did,” he argued in court.

The accused did not appeal the primary judgement. He will be deported following the completion of his punishment.

One of the policemen said they rushed to the street when they spotted a group of streetwalkers gathered around a half-naked man.

“The defendant was too drunk and behaved rowdily and shouted loudly. We lured him towards the police car and asked him to sit in it. He sat in the back seat and on our way to the police station he turned very rowdy … he tried to open the car door forcibly. We stopped the car and when we tried to calm him down, he turned physically violent. He resisted being handcuffed and assaulted my partner and me. He punched and kicked us. He also kicked the door very strongly and wrecked the handle … finally, we managed to restrain him and took him to the police station. My partner and I sustained minor injuries,” the policeman told prosecutors.

The other policeman confirmed his partner’s statement.