Sharjah Prosecution appealed the ruling
A Gulf citizen is innocent of assaulting a policeman in the cemetery
The court confirmed that the felony of assaulting a policeman is not proven against the accused. Archives
The Sharjah Criminal Court acquitted Khaleeji from the charge of assaulting a policeman and violently resisting him, as part of the defendant's response to establishing a new cemetery, while the Sharjah Public Prosecution appealed the ruling.
The case papers stated that the incident occurred on the second of last April, when some people objected to the procedures for establishing a new cemetery. Officials informed the police, and the victim moved to the Preventive Security Department, and the accused assaulted him.
The victim, a first assistant at the Preventive Security Department, stated that he had been assigned to move to the Sajaa area based on a notice of objection to the work of the employees of the Endowment and Planning Departments, and when a gathering witness from the accused and his relatives arrived, he went to them and introduced them himself, but the accused attacked him and accompanied by others.
For his part, the defense attorney, Muhammad Al-Awami Al-Mansouri, said in the defense memorandum that the father of the accused owned an estate in the Sajaa area, and he was surprised that representatives of the Department of Islamic Affairs began to complete the digging of graves in the area and prepare them for burial near the private estates.
He added that the accused initially went to the engineer in charge of the site, and asked him to abide by the orders and not dig graves in the place, but he refused and spoke to the official who came to the area and the situation escalated later, especially after the presence of the police.
For its part, the Criminal Court stated, in the merits of the ruling, that the felony of assaulting a policeman and resisting him with violence is not proven against the accused, based on the statements of the same victim who decided that the accused did not specifically assault him, but people who accompanied him withdrew and pushed him, and demanded that he leave their land.
The court indicated that the prosecution witness in the case, the victim's colleague, did not decide that an assault had occurred on the victim, but rather directed him and others with statements in a manner likely to mock and ridicule.
She emphasized that she does not find in what the accused uttered a threat or a disgraceful insult by law, just as he totally denies his transgression against the victim, pointing out that based on the data before her and in light of the conviction provisions must be based on assertion and certainty, they rule the accused's innocence of the felony of resistance. And assault on police personnel.
For its part, the Sharjah Public Prosecution has appealed the criminal verdict, citing that the denial of the accused does not fit evidence on which the court will base its judgment.
• The accused initially went to the site engineer and asked him to abide by orders and not dig graves.