DUBAI // A policeman has denied luring a woman into a car before taking her to an abandoned house and raping her.
The woman accuser, R P, also said the Emirati officer, S A, 28, beat her up.
“This is not true, your honour,” said the policeman at Dubai Criminal Court on Thursday. “I graduated from police academy four months ago with honours and just joined the police recently. I have an old mother that I care for, I didn’t do this.”
Prosecutors told the court that on September 14 last year the defendant offered a lift to the woman, whose age and nationality were not available.
“I got into the car with him when I knew he was a police officer,” said the woman in records.
The officer then allegedly took her to the abandoned house, where he threatened her, assaulted her and then raped her despite her resistance and screams. Prosecutors told the court that the woman begged him not to rape her but her pleas fell on deaf ears.
The officer was charged with rape and with also carrying out a task that he was not assigned to by his employer, namely stopping the woman and asking her for identification as a means to then rape her.
He denied all charges and asked to be granted bail, but the court rejected his request.
It was not clear in court records how the matter had been reported to police, but they did show that the woman, as well as the clothes she was wearing at the time of the alleged incident, were referred to the criminal lab for testing.
The lab report confirmed that she had sexual intercourse and it confirmed that DNA matching that of the defendant was found on her clothes and her body.
The defendant was arrested on October 13 last year and referred to prosecution. He has been in custody since then.
The court rescheduled the hearing for March 12 to summon witnesses.
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