ABU DHABI // A man accused of consuming drugs, being in illegal relationship and assault, denied the charges at the Criminal Court on Tuesday.
NH, an Emirati claimed that as he attended many parties said he could not have known if he had inhaled second-hand smoke.
“What about the positive [drug test] results?’ questioned chief justice Idris Binmansour.
“Sometimes I’m at parties and bars and there is too much smoke in the air, you don’t know how it enters,” NH said.
He is also accused of beating and having an illegal relationship with AS, also Emirati.
“We are just friends,” he told the court.
“But she has been living with you in your room for two months without any problems,” argued the chief justice.
NH said his family also lives with him at the same house, and AS’s mother knew she was there.
“There was a fight between you two? Did you attack her?” asked the judge.
He denied attacking her, or having any illegal sexual activity with her.
“She once only asked why I wouldn’t marry her, I told her I am jobless and I need to qualify myself first.”
He confessed to an additional charge of drinking alcohol.
AS, a 21-year-old student, also insisted that they were only friends and no indecent acts had occurred between them.
“You don’t have a family? Brothers, a father?” asked the judge.
“Yes I do but there are problems. I am staying with him and both his family and mine know about this,” she explained, “because I have problems with my siblings.”
She denied drinking alcohol, despite the a positive lab result.
She also denied attacking NH physically or being attacked by him.
“But you were the one who called the police,” argued chief justice Binmansour.
“It was a verbal fight only,” she claimed.
NH asked the court to give him details of the drugs found in his system.
The case was adjourned until June 24.
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