22 May 2008

Court quashes prison term of Emirati

The Dubai Court of Appeals has quashed the one-year jail term awarded by the Criminal Court of First Instance to an Emirati H.H. for illegally possessing medicines without a prescription. The court also reduced the fine from Dh20,000 to Dh3,000.

The defence lawyer, Jassem Naqabi, deemed the arrest of the defendant as invalid as he was not caught redhanded.

He said that H.H. did not act with criminal intention and pointed out that his client was using the pills as sedatives.

H.H. was arrested in the Muraqqabat area in an inebriated condition on January 4 this year.

On frisking the suspect, the police officers recovered medicines for which he had no prescription.
/Khaleej Times/

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