Pictures and conversations of “WhatsApp” obliges a young man to pay 70 thousand dirhams to his “friend”

The Abu Dhabi Court for Family and Civil and Administrative Cases ruled that a young man be required to return to a friend of his an amount of 70,000 dirhams that the complainant lent to him to meet the financial hardship he was exposed to, and he did not return the amount after overcoming his hardship despite the repeated demand for his return. 

A young man filed a lawsuit before the court, in which he demanded that a girlfriend be obligated to pay him an amount of 70 thousand dirhams and oblige him to pay fees, expenses, and fees, saying in his lawsuit that he has a relationship of friendship with the defendant, and during the passage of the complainant in financial hardship he asked him to lend him the claimed amount, and after he He transferred the amount to the defendant who did not return it to him, which prompted him to file his similar lawsuit.” He attached account statements and pictures of conversations via “WhatsApp.”

After completing the preparation procedures and announcing the defendant and his failure to appear, the case was referred to the competent department of the court, which stated in the reasons for its ruling that obtaining an understanding of the reality in the case and assessing the evidence presented in it is within the competence of the trial court, and it was decided according to the text of Article 113 of the Civil Transactions Law that (on The creditor is to prove his right and the debtor is to deny it).

And she noted that it is proven from the attached account statement that the complainant had transferred an amount of 70 thousand dirhams to the defendant via mobile phone, and it was clear from the attached conversations via the “WhatsApp” program that the defendant was asking the complainant to give him a deadline to pay an amount that was not specified, so when what was He submitted and the defendant did not appear, despite his notification, to pay any defense or defense in the lawsuit, an amount or subject matter from which the court deduces the validity of lending the complainant to the defendant the claimed amount and not paying this amount, which is what the court decides to oblige the defendant to return to the complainant the amount.


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