Fake RTA inspector jailed for molesting stewardess

Dubai: A military officer has been jailed for six months for posing as a Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) inspector, luring a stewardess into his car and molesting her.

The 47-year-old Emirati man stopped the Chinese stewardess in Abu Hail area claiming that he is an RTA inspector and asked her for her driving licence in November.

When she told him that she had forgotten her licence at home, the man invited her to his car claiming that he would take her home to get the licence. Instead of heading to her house, the officer drove around in Abu Hail area and groped the woman several times.

The Dubai Court of First Instance convicted the defendant of kidnap and molestation though he pleaded not guilty.

The officer tricked the Chinese woman, according to records, and lured her into his car where he touched her indecently.

The stewardess said the incident happened while she was driving from her residence in Al Mamzar to Abu Hail.

“I went to the parking lot to take the company’s shuttle at 4am. The defendant asked me to pull over after he claimed that he worked for RTA. I showed him the car registration (papers) but he wanted to see my licence. I told him that I had forgotten it at home. Then he told me to go with him in his car to get the licence ... On the way, he took a different route. When I asked him why he had taken a different route, he claimed that he could fine me Dh2,000. He did not coerce me to sit in the front seat ... but when I asked him where I should sit, he just pointed to the front passenger seat. Then he touched me indecently,” she claimed.

The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within 12 days.