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For more Court and Crime news visit: https://gulfnews.com  Welcome to Episode 3. Every week, find out what is happening on the police beat with our crime reporter, Ali Al Shouk.   #CrimeNews #CourtAndCrime #BouncedCheque

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00:00Welcome back to the next edition of Court and Crimes for IGTV. Ali is back. We are back from

00:14our Eid break and it's been a relatively quiet week but we have some interesting cases lined up

00:20which is the first one that you're going to tell us about it. Yeah, the first one it's actually

00:25it's a guidance for all the audience about the bounce check because this topic of the

00:31bounce checks many people's concern of what if I have a bounce check, what's my right will be

00:37because before two years a legal order for bounce check cases less than 200,000 dirham usually it's

00:47just like the suspect go to the prosecution and pay a fine between 2,000 to 10,000 dirham if the

00:55bounce check less than 200,000 dirham. So it's it's raised a concern by the by the victims what

01:02they do what where from where they get their rights. I mean how am I gonna get my money back.

01:06Exactly so judges and lawyers we got that government spoke with them they said that

01:14paying the fine is not the end of the story. The person can get his right by launching a civil

01:21case and the civil court to pursue his right. And this has to be done within a specific time period?

01:27Yes, yes that's what it should be within three years from the time that the penalty been issued

01:33by traffic prosecution because the legal order that it was announced before two years by his

01:40Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid it's it's helped to reduce the traffic on court because

01:47many judges were dealing with mostly with the bounce check cases. I mean yes I mean

01:54Dubai Public Prosecution they announced that they settled more than 30,000 cases

02:02bounce check cases from November 2017 to the end of 2018. That's huge. Yes so 87% of those cases

02:12were bounce check cases less than 200,000 dirham. So this law this order came to help reduce the

02:22backlog and kind of help the same time it's raised a concern for the victims from where they get

02:29their rights because the suspect or the issuer of the bounce check he just like he paid the fine

02:35between 2000 and 10,000 dirham but still judges they told Gulf News that people can pursue their

02:42rights by launching a civil case in a civil court. And in fact Ali has done this in-depth story and

02:47you can find it on gulfnews.com so you can actually go back and refer to it and it's an

02:52excellent guide to always keep on hand. Yes. The second case is actually interesting case and

02:58involves massage cards and how all of us hate them when they're stuck to our cars but this has a

03:04different twist to it. Yeah I mean this story it was in Dubai courts recently a guy he was walking

03:13in the streets in the international city he was searching for a massage center he found a massage

03:18car on the ground he took it he called the number on the massage card and a woman replied and she

03:25guided him to the massage center he went but apparently it was a fake massage center so after

03:30he had his massage session and he paid the fees a gang just like opened the door it was a trap the

03:38massage center was a trap so they opened the door they beat him up they tied him and then they stole

03:42his money from his wallet and then they left him behind so it was a fake massage center. Yeah which

03:49is again a warning don't. Yes you need you need to check the massage center if it's legal or illegal

03:56before you go to it otherwise maybe you will face troubles or problems especially if you land in a

04:02fake massage center. Absolutely yeah I mean and this could have been much worse. Yeah I mean yes.

04:07He actually survived the attacks. I mean yeah they they beat him up yeah they even you know they they

04:12told him that they threatened him to report the incident to Dubai police they said that the

04:18massage is illegal in the country so I mean visitors or people in this country they don't

04:24know that if it's a legal massage center then it's okay so that's the gang they just like

04:32threatened the guy of so to scare him not to even to report the incidents to Dubai police so they

04:38get away with their with what they do yes but Dubai police they arrested they arrested the gang and

04:46now they are on a trial okay yes for yeah so we will be hearing more of that yes yes so just like

04:53it's it's hopefully people should be more aware of the massage cars not all the massage cars that

05:00you can call and so you need to check yes I mean when you just you can just like search on the

05:07internet of decent massage centers for that yeah which brings us to the third case which is again

05:15which happened at global village yeah it's it's it's an incident happened in a global village

05:22recently in Dubai a woman she was searching for a book to buy a novel so she went to the Saudi

05:29pavilion and a salesman she accused him of sexually abusing her she said that he touched her finger and

05:39he spoke with her about relationships and stuff so she was she felt scared and she called Dubai

05:45police Dubai police arrested the guy and he was on trial for sexually abusing the girl because of

05:53the poor evidence in this case the guy was acquitted from the sexual abuse which which

05:59is really interesting because I witnessed many cases of sexual abuse landed in courtroom because

06:07of a guy touching a woman even if it's sometimes accidentally you still can be landed in trouble

06:14yeah I mean it's a so be careful yeah I mean be careful because UAE is a Muslim country they have

06:22their own traditions so touching a woman in a public place yeah I mean with this with this

06:32story the guy he just like while he was handing her the book he touched her finger so she felt

06:39offended from that thing so she reported to the police she has all the right to report to the

06:44police and then investigation so the guy went to courtroom he was charged with sexual abuse

06:49because you know touching of a woman in a public place in the UAE it's forbidden yes so this kind

06:56of thing it's can't land the person in trouble and he can't go to jail because of that of touch

07:03so it's you know you when you go to the metro you know when you go to the absolutely you should not

07:08be invading anybody's exact or privacy or breaching the privacy yeah exactly of any person for that

07:14matter yeah and especially for women without their permission and that is not acceptable and will be

07:19dealt with yeah rather strictly I mean yeah yeah I mean that the law is really strict to this point

07:25because the person can't be even deported from the country beside the prison time so for foreigners

07:32they can be deported for the wrong touch yeah so be careful yes yeah on that note we end today

07:38have a great weekend but Ali will be back with his next installment next week so stay tuned and

07:45we'll catch you again next Thursday

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