A Dubai court has fined a man and his wife Dh8,000 (approximately BD800) each after finding them both guilty of assaulting one another during an altercation that began as a domestic dispute.
According to court documents, a housemaid reported to police in March that her employer, an Arab woman, had been struck by her husband with a palm branch inside their home in the Al Barsha area. The maid told investigators that the husband then seized the woman's phone to prevent her from calling for help.
The wife then left the house and, in apparent retaliation, shattered the windshield of her husband’s luxury car and caused extensive damage to its bodywork.
The husband denied the assault in court, claiming he acted in self-defence.
He alleged that she deliberately damaged his vehicle due to a dispute related to car payments, causing losses estimated at Dh45,000.
The wife maintained that her husband had attacked her during yet another of their repeated marital disputes and that he had taken her phone to stop her from reporting the assault.
A forensic report from Dubai Police confirmed that the wife had sustained abrasions and bruises on her hands and other parts of her body. The report also found injuries on the husband consistent with a mutual assault.
The court convicted both spouses and imposed a fine of Dh8,000 each, citing the evidence that both parties had engaged in physical violence.
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