Dubai: A retiree has been accused of threatening to burn his two daughters if they tried to enter his villa shortly after he kicked them out.
The two sisters, who do not have personal identification papers, were said to be inside the villa when their 57-year-old Iranian father came in and threw them out in April.
Then, he allegedly locked the door from inside, according to records, and threatened his daughters verbally that he would set them on fire if they re-entered the place.
The sisters lodged a complaint with the police who summoned the father for questioning.
Prosecutors charged the 57-year-old Iranian of threatening verbally to kill his daughters.
“This is an absolutely fabricated case … the two claimants are my daughters. I brought them up and educated them and this is how they repay me! They are the ones who tricked me and cheated me before they misappropriated from me Dh800,000,” contended the man as he entered a not guilty plea before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Tuesday.
The elder sister claimed to prosecutors that her father kicked her and her sister out of the house in Oud Al Muteena.
“I had just returned home along with my sister when my father threw us out of the residence, locked the main entrance and then shouted from behind the door ‘I will burn you if you come into the house’,” she testified to prosecutors.
The younger daughter confirmed her sister’s statement.
“Their mother is the one who incited them to do so … she encouraged them to lodge this unfounded case against me. I am their father and I am the one responsible for them … I cannot imagine how would they do such a thing or treat me like this after all these years! They recorded my voice without obtaining prosecutors’ permission to do so. Actually, they had committed a swindling and fraud crime against me and I covered up for them because they are my daughters … they are my eyes,” the suspect argued before presiding judge Mohammad Jamal.
Meanwhile, the sisters’ lawyer lodged a civil lawsuit against the father and is seeking Dh21,000 in temporary compensation against his clients’ moral and financial damages.
A ruling will be heard on December 17.
