Dubai, December 30: Ten bootleggers including seven Indians have escaped death sentence after a court modified charges of premeditated murder and re-charged them with beating their rival which led to his death, says a report in Arab News.
According to the report, the Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the ten persons – seven Indians, two Pakistanis and a Bangladeshi – to two years in jail each followed by deportation. The prosecutors had accused them of pre-meditatedly murdering their Indian rival by attacking him with wooden bars and iron clubs. The court did not agree with the prosecution’s accusation and motive that the defendants intended to pre-meditatedly kill the victim and decided to cancel the premeditated murder charge and re-charge the defendants with beating the victim AK which led to his death.
The report states that the incident happened between two bootlegging groups competing for the jurisdiction of selling and providing liquor to residents. The first defendant led a group of bootleggers and fought with AK and his group members.
According to the report, the Dubai Court of First Instance sentenced the ten persons – seven Indians, two Pakistanis and a Bangladeshi – to two years in jail each followed by deportation. The prosecutors had accused them of pre-meditatedly murdering their Indian rival by attacking him with wooden bars and iron clubs. The court did not agree with the prosecution’s accusation and motive that the defendants intended to pre-meditatedly kill the victim and decided to cancel the premeditated murder charge and re-charge the defendants with beating the victim AK which led to his death.
The report states that the incident happened between two bootlegging groups competing for the jurisdiction of selling and providing liquor to residents. The first defendant led a group of bootleggers and fought with AK and his group members.