DUBAI // A customer picked up a supermarket cashier and threw him to the ground after accusing him of not giving his son the correct change, the Dubai Criminal Court heard on Monday.
The Emirati father, A M, 29, denied physically assaulting Indian K M, 49, and causing him a permanent disability by lifting him in the air by the shirt and throwing him.
Prosecutors said the attack left the cashier with injuries, some of which did not heal completely, leaving him with a 3 per cent permanent disability in his left arm.
The cashier said that at 9.30pm on July 30 last year, he was at the supermarket where he works when the son of the defendant came to him and bought some items worth Dh10. “Half an hour after that, the boy’s father came to me and said that I did not give his son the remainder of his money,” said K M.
“I told him I did but he was not convinced, so he grabbed me from my shirt, shook me, then threw me to the ground. I landed on my left arm and got injured.”
However, the father said K M fell when he pushed him to prevent a landline phone wire from hurting his son’s eye.
A verdict is expected on February 26.
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