DUBAI // A man who accidentally saw a text on his wife’s mobile phone sent to a strange man followed her and found that she was cheating on him.
The Indian, BH, 45, then called police, who arrested the woman and her lover in his apartment in Sports City.
Prosecutors charged the Indian wife, AS, 35, and her Pakistani lover, MA, 43, a general manager, with having consensual sex outside wedlock.
The woman said that she met MA while visiting a Nakheel office and the two spoke about the economy and trading.
“He asked for my number and I gave it to him — I really liked his character and then we became more intimate and we started to meet,” said AS.
At Dubai Court of Misdemeanours she confessed and asked for her husband’s forgiveness. “This is not related to the case but a personal matter between you and your husband,” the presiding judge told her.
However, in court the Pakistani lover denied the charge after allegedly confessing to being involved with the woman for nearly six months.
“On the day of the arrest she knew I was at the apartment and said she would come to have dinner with me,” said MA.
“I said no because I was exhausted as I had just come from travel but she came and we ordered dinner. When the door bell rang, I opened up to pick up the dinner order and there were police out there.
“It was then I knew that her husband had lodged a complaint.”
He added that she had visited his flat three times before their arrest.
Records show that in August the husband saw a text message in his wife’s WhatsApp messenger from a man he did not know.
“I knew she had an affair after I checked the messages and I found many messages between her and this man, some of which included intimate words and her desire to see him,” said the husband, who is a marketing manager.
“One of the messages said that they will meet in a flat in Sports City so I followed her and called police, who came and arrested both.”
A verdict is due on November 24.
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