Tailor jailed for threatening boss

Dubai: A tailor has been jailed for three months for threatening to kill his boss and his family if he considered deporting him.

The 26-year-old Bangladeshi tailor, E.K., was said to have called up his 36-year-old countryman boss and threatened to kill him and cursed him over the phone over a labour dispute in February.

The Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced E.K. in absentia after he failed to stand trial and enter a plea.

Presiding judge Mohammad Jamal said the accused will be deported following the completion of his jail term.

According to the charge sheet, the defendant threatened to kill his boss if he did not give back his passport without having him deported from the UAE.

He was also charged with cursing the boss’ family.

According to the Criminal Procedures Law, the defendant is entitled to a retrial after he turns himself in and contests the ruling in absentia.

The 36-year-old boss, A.M., testified that the defendant called him from a mobile phone and asked him for his end-of-service benefits and passport.

“E.K. called me and told me that he needed his passport and that he did not want to be deported. He threatened to kill me and my family if I considered having his work visa cancelled, banned and deported. He cursed me by saying that he would sleep with my mother and wife,” A.M. claimed to prosecutors.

Court records said E.K. was summoned to Dubai Police’s criminal evidence laboratory to have his voice examined and compared to that of the phone call.

The accused immediately confessed that he was the one who had called and threatened A.M. and cursed him.

Records said the two had a labour dispute.

The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within 10 days.