Abu Dhabi court sends two to jail for hiding Tuberculosis

Abu Dhabi: The Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance has sentenced a Pakistani man to three months in jail for using a medical test form belonging to a Yemeni national, who has also received a similar sentence.

Imprisonment will be followed by deportation for both of them.

The Pakistani national approached Abu Dhabi Department of Preventive Medicine to a medical test required for residency visa application.

However, when the Department's employee entered transaction number in the system, he discovered that the image did not resemble the man standing before him. He promptly notified the security personnel.

After arresting and interrogating the Pakistani national, he confessed the form did not belong to him but to a Yemeni national who asked him to undergo the medical test instead of him.

When the other man, the Yemeni, was arrested, the resemblance between them was obvious. Both had the same clothes - white kandoora and red headscarf.

However a medical check-up produced one dissimilarity - the Yemeni had Tuberculosis.

The Court built its sentence on the provisions of Article 212 of Penal procedures Law and the Federal Panel Law. However, they were given clemency by the Court since they were young guys and had no criminal record.