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Dubai airport worker to be deported for stealing 2 mangoes
Marie Nammour
Last updated on September 24, 2019 at 08.47 am
He confessed that on August 11, 2017, he stole two pieces of mangoes from a fruit box.- Alamy Image
A luggage worker at Dubai International Airport was sentenced to a suspended three-month jail term for stealing two mangoes from the baggage of a passenger.
The Court of First Instance on Monday ordered the 27-year-old Indian worker's deportation after paying a Dh5,000 fine, for stealing two mangoes worth about Dh6 on August 11, 2017.
The defendant, who is referred to as a public employee in the public prosecution charge sheet, confessed to his crime.
During interrogation and prosecution investigation, the accused recounted that he had been working at Terminal 3 of the airport. His duties included loading travellers' luggage onto the conveyer belt from the container and vice versa.
He confessed that on August 11, 2017, he stole two pieces of mangoes from a fruit box that was to be shipped to India as he was thirsty and looking for water.
In April 2018, the police summoned him and interrogated him about the incident. He was arrested and his place was searched. But no stolen items were found there.
A security officer said he saw the worker on a warehouse CCTV camera opening the travellers' luggage and stealing.
The worker has the right to appeal the verdict within 15 days.
mary@khaleejtimes.com
Marie Nammour Originally from Lebanon, Marie has been covering the Dubai Courts and the Public Prosecution, immigration and labour issues often, and the Dubai International Film Festival. A graduate from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, a city to the north of Beirut, she worked as an in-house reporter of international affairs at a leading TV station back home and a legal translator for a renowned law academy in the Lebanese capital. Speaks fluently four languages and is fond of travelling, psychology, learning more, and has grown by now a rich ‘criminal’ imagination...
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Hats off to the cops and prosecuters to hunt down such a beast before some vigilantes could take justice into their own hands. The society is feeling much more secure ever since .
Marie Nammour
Last updated on September 24, 2019 at 08.47 am
He confessed that on August 11, 2017, he stole two pieces of mangoes from a fruit box.- Alamy Image
A luggage worker at Dubai International Airport was sentenced to a suspended three-month jail term for stealing two mangoes from the baggage of a passenger.
The Court of First Instance on Monday ordered the 27-year-old Indian worker's deportation after paying a Dh5,000 fine, for stealing two mangoes worth about Dh6 on August 11, 2017.
The defendant, who is referred to as a public employee in the public prosecution charge sheet, confessed to his crime.
During interrogation and prosecution investigation, the accused recounted that he had been working at Terminal 3 of the airport. His duties included loading travellers' luggage onto the conveyer belt from the container and vice versa.
He confessed that on August 11, 2017, he stole two pieces of mangoes from a fruit box that was to be shipped to India as he was thirsty and looking for water.
In April 2018, the police summoned him and interrogated him about the incident. He was arrested and his place was searched. But no stolen items were found there.
A security officer said he saw the worker on a warehouse CCTV camera opening the travellers' luggage and stealing.
The worker has the right to appeal the verdict within 15 days.
mary@khaleejtimes.com
Marie Nammour Originally from Lebanon, Marie has been covering the Dubai Courts and the Public Prosecution, immigration and labour issues often, and the Dubai International Film Festival. A graduate from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Jounieh, a city to the north of Beirut, she worked as an in-house reporter of international affairs at a leading TV station back home and a legal translator for a renowned law academy in the Lebanese capital. Speaks fluently four languages and is fond of travelling, psychology, learning more, and has grown by now a rich ‘criminal’ imagination...
Click/tap here to subscribe to Khaleej Times news alerts on WhatsApp. Make sure you add our number under Contacts on your phone for uninterrupted service.
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Hats off to the cops and prosecuters to hunt down such a beast before some vigilantes could take justice into their own hands. The society is feeling much more secure ever since .
