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Man on trial for assault on family court judge

Ras Al Khaimah - He's also engaged in a dispute with his wife over child visitation

An Emirati man has appeared in court for insulting and assaulting an execution judge of the family court in Ras Al Khaimah.
The RAK criminal court started hearing the case in which the defendant, identified only as SS, is facing seven charges.
These include a premeditated assault against the judge, insulting and swearing at him, damaging property in his office, using violence, resisting and insulting the security men at court, and escaping from the court.
The accused denied the charges and the defence witness - his brother - told the court that he asked the plaintiff on the same day to remove a travel ban against his brother so that he could accompany his ailing sister abroad.
He also vouched that his brother would honour the court decision to let his divorced wife see their son who he has custody of. But the judge refused and asked him to come to court.
"While I was walking in the court, I heard a loud voice from the judge's office; I went there and saw two security men holding down by brother," the brother testifed, adding that he tried to calm them down.
The defence lawyer told the court that the same judge earlier filed a lawsuit against his client, accusing him of insulting him during a family dispute between the accused and his ex-wife. He was given a jail term, later reduced to a fine.
The same judge has issued several arrest orders against the accused, without summoning him to inquire about his failure to execute the court order to let his divorced wife visit their child, he added. "My client was submitting a declaration from the divorced woman to the execution judge, that she did not want to see her son on the same day of the fight with him, since she had to see him at the defendant's house on Friday as ordered."
He pointed out that the woman did not go to see her son, and instead filed a case against his client claiming that he had not let her see the boy. "The judge, instead of summoning and hearing him, issued an arrest order against him."
The defence lawyer further denied any evidence or medical report that proved the assault by his client on the judge or any security men. The court ordered the adjournment of the case to February 28.
ahmedshaaban@khaleejtimes.com

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