Two jailed for throwing chemical garbage in Sharjah

Sarah Al Balushi, Staff Reporter

Sharjah Court of First Instance sent two Asians to jail for a month on charges of throwing waste in undesignated places and also obligated them to pay the case fees.

Details of the case date back to the time when a report was received by the Police Operations Room alerting that a fire had erupted in garbage which contained chemical materials in the 18th Industrial Zone.

Upon arriving at the report’s location, civil defence teams extinguished the fire, which Bee’ah Company said it was due to buried waste.

The police arrested two suspects who, on being questioned by the Public Prosecution, confessed that they had committed the incident, adding that they worked for a company which manufactured chemical detergents, and that one of them was responsible for manufacturing.

They also confessed that they wanted to get rid of the waste, so they transported it in a car driven by the official to the place where the fire erupted. 

Besides, they confessed that they knew that the waste contained substances harmful to humans.

The lawyer for the two suspects, Salem Obaid Sahoo, said that he requested their acquittal, but after it was proved they caused the fire, the court sent them to jail for a month, based on the Criminal Procedure Code and the Federal Crimes and Penal Code.