Kannur native acquitted in criminal case filed by Pakistani woman

The Sharjah Sharia Court has acquitted Kannur native Rajesh Narayanan Nambiar in a case filed by Ghassala Naqvi, a native of Peshawar, Pakistan, with the Sharjah Police in connection with a business dispute.

The case is that when Rajesh went to Rajesh's residence to get back the money, he bit the Pakistani woman on the wrist and various parts of her body, behaved in an indecent manner, and beat her.

The Pakistani woman also organized a medical report from the Sharjah Kuwait Hospital, confirming the violence, recording the above complaint, and gave it to the police. Rajesh was repeatedly called by the Sharjah Police, but he did not appear at the police due to fear. Since he did not appear at the police, senior police officers including a police officer also visited his residence to investigate. It was at this time that Rajesh's friend Pramod approached Salam Pappinissery, a legal representative at Yab Legal Services, at 2 am.

Immediately, Pramod, the friend of the accused in the case, went to Sharjah Police to investigate the matter, leaving Rajesh aside, and it was only when he learned that a complaint had been filed against Rajesh for assaulting the Pakistani woman.

Mediation efforts failed. The Pakistani woman was not ready to withdraw from the case. Subsequently, Sharjah Police transferred the case to the Sharjah Prosecution and the prosecution transferred it to the court.

Lawyer Yunus Al Balushi argued in the court that the court should not pass judgment on such allegations without finding clear evidence, that there is no evidence in the said incident, that there is a clear contradiction in the complaint of the complainant, a Pakistani woman, that there is no evidence of payment or witnesses to the incident, that the injuries on her body may have been inflicted by her, that our client Rajesh did not need to be bitten in this way, that a medical report was prepared and a case was filed with the police before filing a complaint with the police, and that all this was done with malicious intent to frame his client and punish him.

The verdict in criminal cases cannot be based on mere speculation without ensuring the substance of the facts. The court could not find anything in the complaint filed by the complainant, including the medical report, to confirm her claim. The court could only see her words. The Sharjah court ruled that the accused was not guilty due to the lack of witnesses and other circumstantial evidence in connection with the incident.

In some cases like this, there have been cases where people have been sentenced to prison, life imprisonment, and deportation. In many cases, when there is a personal enmity, people get a favorable verdict by inflicting injuries on their own bodies, committing violence, and getting women to file complaints. Salam Pappinissery, a legal representative and social activist, said that this verdict is also a warning to such people.