DUBAI // One man was convicted and two others cleared of getting into a knife fight over the cleanliness of a restaurant.
Bangladeshi N M, 29, was found guilty of attempted murder and physical assault and was sentenced to six months in jail by Dubai Criminal Court.
Charges of physical assault against his countrymen, M A, 35, and S A, 36, were dropped after the two reached a settlement and each dropped charges against the other.
The court was told that on June 22, the trio started a fight in which N M and M A stabbed each other with the same knife, while S A assaulted N M by punching him on the head and face.
The defendants were not brought from their detention cells to court to enter a plea.
Records show that S A and M A were standing at the door of a restaurant in Naif where they all worked and were talking about N M.
“I was complaining to M A about N M when he arrived and started asking why I was talking bad about him. N M then went to the kitchen and returned holding a knife. When M A tried to calm him down and grabbed the knife from his hand, he pulled it away, injuring M A’s hand in the process,” said S A in records.
N M then chased S A and stabbed him in the neck and abdomen, while M A managed to take the knife from him and stab N M in the back, before he fainted after seeing blood.
N M then chased S A to a nearby building where S A punched him in the face and head before people standing nearby tried to stop the fight.
Police were called and an ambulance arrived to take the three injured men to hospital.
“I heard them fighting about the cleanliness of the restaurant then I left to perform Al Fajr prayers. When I returned I knew what had happened,” testified Indian cook M R, 48.
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