Two Indian nationals have just been charged with premeditated murder for slitting the throat of a fellow Indian while inside his car parked at Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 2.
The murder took place on November 13th 2008 after two Indian men, aged 31 and 33, waited 2 hours for their victim to finish his work. They followed him to his car in the airport parking lot and one man jumped into the passenger seat where he restrained the victim while the other assailant sat behind him, pulling his head back by the hair and cutting his throat.
Prosecution records indicated that the murder had been committed over money that was allegedly owed by the victim to the assailants. The accused were reported to have followed their victim for a full two months before finally killing him.
The case will next appear before the Dubai Criminal Court on August 24th.
The increase in criminal activity at Dubai International Airport has prompted the proposed creation of a specialist prosecution office at the airport. There were a total of 3,234 reported cases, between January 1st and June 30th 2007, and this figure increased to 3,452 during the same period in 2008.
The specialised airport prosecution will be capable of speeding up legal procedures whenever a crime is reported at the airport. The new airport based prosecution service is expected to improve litigation and reduce workload. Most drug trafficking cases involved people swallowing narcontics concealed in capsules.
It is thought that increased vigilance along with severe sentencing have contributed to the sharp decline in drug related cases at the airport.It has been stated that the number of narcotics related cases at the airport have fallen by as much as 30% in the first half of 2009. Most (95%) or cases were for trafficking in small amounts of narcotics brought into the country for personal use.
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