Daijiworld Media Network - Ras Al Khaimah (SHP)
Ras Al Khaimah, Dec 22: The civil court in Ras Al Khaimah has ordered a young Arab woman to pay a fine of Dh10,000 for stalking a young Gulf man. She was accused of snapping his pictures and sharing them on social media without his consent.
The man in his statement stated that the woman stalked him to the parking lot of a shopping centre, took many snaps of him using her cell phone, and shared them via her WhatsApp account.
The court turned down the woman's 'baseless and unsupported' claims that the plaintiff had harassed and annoyed her.
The accused was found guilty for filing a false case of harassment against the man. The case caused him to remain in custody for 39 days and affecting him mentally.
The defendant was ordered to pay the court charges and advocate fees apart from the Dh10,000 fine as compensation to the man who was held for no rightful reason but mere claims.
The RAK Misdemeanour Court had earlier convicted the woman and asked her to pay a fine of Dh5,000 for violating the privacy of the plaintiff. But the man insisted on approaching the civil court.
The woman denied stalking the complainant and claimed that she clicked his photo only because he was following and harassing her at the shopping centre to report him to the law enforcement bodies.
She added that she did not share his picture with anyone. "I sent the only photo of him to the CID men so that they could identify and track him down, and arrest him for harassing me."
The plaintiff's lawyer asserted that the duo knew each other but had broken up and stopped seeing or talking to each other following some dispute. "He never harassed or stalked her at any time, though," she said.
She pointed out that the defendant used the photos of her client in creating a video to mock him.