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An Asian employee, 33, molested an Arab employee, 35, while she was with her mother and children at a children’s toys section in the Dragon Mart, International City.

The victim testified before Dubai Public Prosecution that while she was wandering around a children’s toys section in the International City to buy some toys for her children, she noticed that the defendant was looking at her suspiciously and walking behind her wherever she went. She felt scared but the defendant soon stood behind her and allegedly molested her. She shouted at him and rebuffed him. The shoppers gathered around them and the police came and arrested the Asian.

Separately, the Dubai Criminal Court on Monday charged nine Asians with importing drugs in two separate cases. In the first case, seven Asians were charged with importing 72 kilograms of drugs, and in the second, two Asians illegally imported psychotropic substances in the form of medicinal slices and 74,340 prazolam tablets for peddling by hiding them in a wooden container.

According to the official records of the first case, a prosecution witness, a customs officer, testified that he was on duty in Jebel Ali Port when he suspected a container coming from an Asian country and reportedly carrying auto spare parts. Intensive investigations showed that the importer used usually to bring foodstuffs from unsuspected countries but this shipment was under suspicion for reasons related to e exporter. The shipment was put under guard until the person concerned came.  The container was then inspected and the drugs were found hidden inside the auto spare parts.

In the second case, the prosecution witness, a Dubai Police officer, testified that Dubai Customs seized a huge quantity of narcotics in the form of pills hidden in a container. The clearing agent who would deliver the shipment to another emirate was summoned. He said two people would call him and tell him where to take the goods as soon as the shipment was cleared.