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A waiter faced trial in the Court of First Instance on Thursday on several charges including defaming a policeman by opening an account on social media and posting personal pictures belonging to the latter.
According to public prosecution records, the 29-year-old Filipino posted next to the photos lines suggesting that the policeman liked to have sex with men and inviting them to make contact with him. He is also accused of threatening the policeman on WhatsApp to cause trouble to him unless he paid him Dh8,000.
The waiter is also being charged with having consensual out-of the-wedlock sex with the complainant. He pleaded guilty to the charges in court.
The policeman has been referred to the Court of Misdemeanors on the charge of having illicit consensual sex.
The complaint dates back to and prior to February 15 and was registered at Al Qusais police station.
The policeman, a Yemeni, told the investigators that the accused was his friend.
"I got a phone call from my colleagues asking me about the reason I posted pictures of me in the uniform on Instagram," he said.
He went to a police station in Ajman to lodge a complaint after seeing his pictures including that of his father on the site.
He was later summoned by a lieutenant colonel in his workplace. "I was asked about the page that had my personal picture in the uniform," he told the prosecutor.
The CID officers then arrived and detained him. He was later referred to a forensic expert for examination.
He reportedly admitted in the interrogation that out of the six pictures posted on the site, three were his own pictures and one was his father's.
The policeman told the investigators that it was the accused who opened the account. He added that the man had previously threatened to post his pictures online so to intimidate him into being his lover.
He confessed that he had sent his picture in the uniform to the accused about one year earlier.
He added that the defendant obtained the other pictures from his Instagram or WhatsApp accounts and that the accused posted his personal mobile number (the complainant's) on that account.
The accused admitted to the charges in the investigation.
The court will hand down a verdict on November 21.
mary@khaleejtimes.com
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