DUBAI // A man pretended to be a policeman to force a woman into his car where they had consensual sex, a court has ruled.
The Pakistani, 31, who claimed he had never seen the Moroccan woman before, denied charges of impersonating a police officer, rape and kidnapping.
The woman said she was leaving a restaurant in Al Riqqa at nearly 10pm on April 17 when the defendant approached her in his car. He identified himself as a CID officer and asked her about a theft.
“He told me he was investigating a robbery that was carried out by women and he started showing me pictures of women’s hands,” she said.
“Then he said he needed to take a picture of my hand to compare with the other images so I got into his car.”
She said he locked the doors and drove off, and that she screamed but he gagged, restrained and raped her.
“When he was done he dropped me off and said I can take a cab home,” said the woman. She said he also stole two phones worth a total of Dh4,000.
Her phones were found in his possession when he was arrested the next day.
“I am innocent your honour. I don’t have any connection with this woman and I only came to know her after she filed this case,” he told the judges.
Dubai Criminal Court found him guilty of impersonating a police officer and consensual sex, instead of rape, but acquitted him of kidnapping the woman.
He was sentenced to six months in jail to be followed by deportation.
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