Woman seeks Dhs356,000 from man over fake promise

Aya Al Deeb, Staff Reporter

The Abu Dhabi Family, Civil and Administrative Cases Court rejected a lawsuit filed by a woman, in which she wanted her boyfriend to pay her Dhs356,000 after she realised that his promise of marriage was false.

According to the lawsuit, the woman demanded that her boyfriend be ordered to pay her the loan that she had borrowed for him in addition to the interests imposed on the loan at an annual rate of 12 per cent, totalling Dhs60,000. She also demanded that her boyfriend should pay her Dhs50,000 in compensation for the moral harm that had befallen her and also pay the lawsuit expenses and lawyer’s fees.

In her lawsuit, the woman indicated that she had a friendship with the defendant for more than 18 months, during which he succeeded in giving her the impression that they were going to get married. As a result, she lent him sums of money of Dhs246,000 intermittently over less than two years.

The defendant, however, asserted that the plaintiff transferred sums of money to him as gifts due to their friendship relationship.

Rejecting the woman’s lawsuit, the court indicated that the woman did not present any evidence that she had borrowed Dhs246,000 for the defendant and that the case papers were devoid of any evidence that the defendant asked her to take a loan and grant it to him. The court pointed out that the defendant’s acknowledgment that the plaintiff transferred sums of money to him proves only that the amount was transferred to him but does not prove why the amount was transferred.

Separately, the Abu Dhabi Appellate Court upheld the obligation of two parents to pay the husband of their daughter Dhs20,000 in compensation for the damages he sustained after they beat him and inflicted physical injuries on him, including scrapes on his right shoulder, in addition to destroying his camera. Details of the case date back to an earlier time, when the daughter’s husband filed a lawsuit against his wife’s parents, demanding that they pay him Dhs52,000 and an interest of 9%, in compensation for the material and moral damages he sustained as a result of their beating him and destroying his camera.