Dubai: A couple, who are fighting a divorce case in court, have been accused of exchanging assault when the wife tried to drive away with her children from their father’s home.

The Emirati husband and wife are said to be fighting a divorce case in court and the children are currently staying with their father at his residence in Hatta.

The wife was believed to have visited the husband’s house to see her children, according to records, and while she trying to drive them out of the residence, the husband stopped her.

The husband rushed towards his wife’s car and knocked at the window to stop her from driving away before she repeatedly banged the door on his hand in September.

Records said the man then opened the door and assaulted his wife.

The wife complained to the police that her husband beat her and the husband lodged a counter complaint in which he accused his wife of assaulting him. Dubai’s Family and Juveniles Prosecution accused the wife of assaulting her husband and causing him a seven per cent permanent disability in his right hand. Meanwhile prosecutors accused the husband of assaulting his wife and causing her injuries.

The wife pleaded not guilty when she appeared before the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday.

The husband, who was seen walking on crutches, also pleaded not guilty before presiding judge Mohammad Jamal.

Meanwhile, the wife’s lawyer contended before the presiding judge that the husband’s disability happened at a date previous to that of the assault and wasn’t caused by his client.

The lawyer told the court that the husband sustained the injury earlier and was treated at a private hospital, from where he obtained a medical report and provided it to the court.

The lawyer further asked the court to refer the husband to the same hospital and have him re-examined to know whether he had been treated there or not.

The husband’s sister-in-law told prosecutors that the incident happened in the evening when the wife and her sister came to see the children. “The wife, her sister and father came to the house to see the children … they were sitting in the majlis [side room]. Then I suddenly saw my mother-in-law [husband’s mother] running towards his room and calling him to come down quickly. Then I saw the husband and his mother running out to the front yard … meanwhile the wife, her sister, father and the children were in the vehicle. Once the wife started reversing the vehicle, the husband ran towards her and knocked at the window to make her stop the vehicle. The wife banged the vehicle’s door on her husband’s hand several times,” she told prosecutors.

The wife told prosecutors that her husband dragged her out of the car and assaulted her.

The trial continues.