58-year-old man caught groping 2 women at mall in Dubai  

The man was caught on CCTV footage sexually harassing two women.

A 58-year-old man has been charged with sexual harassment at a Dubai court after he was caught inappropriately touching two women at a mall. 
The Court of First Instance heard how the Egyptian man, who is a clerk, was caught on CCTV footage sexually harassing two women in two separate incidents at a shopping centre on August 24. A complaint was filed at Al Muraqqabat police station.
The complainant, an Egyptian, said she was with her husband and her two boys watching a circus show at a mall at 8:30pm. "My husband took one of our sons to take photos with the circus artists while the one-year-old boy stayed with me."
She said that when she felt someone touching her inappropriately with an arm, she turned around and saw it was a man. "The suspect then walked away without saying a word. I followed him later with my family."
When the husband confronted him, the defendant denied the wife's allegations, claiming it was not an intentional act.
"He would not wait for my husband to call for the police but rushed out after pushing him away. So my husband told the security guards about him," she recounted during public prosecution investigation. 
The police officers checked the CCTV footage, which caught the defendant standing very close to the woman. He was walking behind her and touched her on purpose. 
A police sergeant told the prosecutor the accused was apprehended at a cloth shop at the same mall at 9pm. "The woman's husband told us that when he confronted the suspect, the latter told him that he had no right to hold him back and if he had anything against him, he should inform the police."  
The sergeant told the investigator that the suspect was caught on CCTV touching the complainant consistently with what she had accused him of. "We also tracked down his movement prior to the incident and we saw him on cameras touching another woman."   
A ruling will be issued on November 8. 
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