A 28-year-old Indian was today acquitted of killing his compatriot by a court here citing unsubstantiated and weak evidence.
The man, identified only with his initials M F, was acquitted of premeditatedly murdering his coworker R S, who was reported missing in 2008 before his decomposed body was found later in Jebel Ali Port in March 2011.
Citing unsubstantiated and weak evidence, the Dubai Court of First Instance cleared M F, Gulf News reported today.
He was accused of stabbing his countryman to death with a kitchen knife.
M F's lawyer, Mansour Al Mazmi said before presiding judge Fahd Al Shamsi that records said he left the UAE in 2010 when he was believed to be the primary suspect in the premeditated murder.
M F was arrested on his return at Sharjah International Airport in May last year and was subsequently referred to Dubai Prosecution.
His lawyer argued that M F's confession before police interrogators was extracted under coercion, adding that Dubai Police misplaced the murder weapon that had been in their possession for more than three years.
"When prosecutors asked the police to produce the murder weapon, it took the police around six months to inform Dubai prosecutors that the weapon could have been lost while [moving] from one building to another," Al Mazmi said.
He also said that his client had bruises and injuries over his body... Which verifies that he was beaten to [to get him to] confess.
