The court ordered him to pay 5,000 dirhams in moral and material compensation

Punishment of “Khaleeji” who damaged his wife’s sunglasses

The Ras Al Khaimah Court ruled to oblige a (Gulf) husband to pay his wife 5,000 dirhams, in compensation for the material and moral damages she sustained as a result of damaging her sunglasses.

The wife had reported that her husband expelled her from the marital home, prevented her from taking her things and clothes, and destroyed and squandered some of her movables, demanding that he pay her 20,000 dirhams in compensation for the material and moral damage she had suffered, and what she had lost of earnings, and the loss she suffered, represented by: Infringement on her status and her social status, and the pain and heartbreak caused by the destruction of movables due to their association with human memories of her.

Before the Public Prosecution's investigations, the husband admitted to destroying some movables, not paying their value, and not knowing the fate of others.

The reasoning of the court ruling stated that the assessment of compensation is from the court’s authority as long as it clarifies the elements of the damage, and there is no provision in the law or agreement that requires certain criteria to be followed in its assessment, whether the damage is material or moral, and that compensation for moral damage is not intended to remove the damage, but rather to consider it as a substitute For the harm done to a person in his honor, consideration, affection, feeling or feelings

She confirmed that the husband denied, at all stages of the investigations at the police and the Public Prosecution Office, that he had seized his wife's movables and clothes, and admitted taking her belongings and clothes, putting them in bags and leaving them with one of her female relatives.

The witnesses confirmed what the husband had said, and they also confirmed that he offered his wife to hand over her clothes and movables, but she refused and insisted on asking for their financial value.

The court said that the husband admitted to damaging his wife's sunglasses, and that it is confirmed that the damages are limited to the glasses, according to investigations by the Public Prosecution and the police.

And she considered that the husband's intentional destruction of the glasses would cause his wife material damage, represented in her loss and deprivation of her use, and that it would generate in her a feeling of sadness and sorrow, because of the assault on her property, and the nominal value of the glasses.

The court held that the material and moral damage caused to the wife was a direct result of the husband's mistake and the harmful act he had committed, adding that it obligated him to pay 5000 dirhams in compensation.

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