A pardon for a wife who transmitted text messages from her husband's phone

The Court of Appeal of Misdemeanors in the Ras Al Khaimah Courts Department decided yesterday to overturn the ruling issued by the Court of First Instance of fining a Gulf wife of 3000 dirhams on charges of transmitting text messages from her husband's phone to her phone without his permission. The husband to the Public Prosecution to investigate with him about the crime of improving sin and inciting it.

The court also ruled that the public prosecution's appeal against the first-degree verdict was accepted and rejected in the matter. She charged her to the plaintiff's civil husband with AED 3000 temporarily compensation for the damage he suffered, and paid a fee of AED 100 for legal fees and obliged her to pay the fees and expenses of the civil action.

The appeal of the Public Prosecution was based on a mistake in the application of the law. Anyone who picked up or transported a device of any kind and photographed a person in a private place was sentenced in a private place, by telephone or any other device.

The wife admitted in the investigation of the police and the Public Prosecution transfer of text conversations from her husband's phone to her phone, because she suspects his behavior because he is linked to another girl.

The defense lawyer for the defendant stated during his pleading before the court of first instance and the Court of Appeal that his client was coerced into the crime, explaining that the accused was surprised while she was with her husband at home to receive text messages and repeated phone calls, and inspected his phone and read text messages outside the limits of decency and a red rose and word I love you sent by one of the girls to her husband's phone.

He added that the accused informed the victim that he is staying outside the house as many times as he is sitting inside and that all his time spent on the phone, and told him that she doubts his behavior, which made him give her phone to search and check her doubts, pointing out that she had seen the husband's phone with his permission and satisfaction, and that the element of coercion is Which prompted her to commit the crime of transmitting text messages.