Labourer ‘threatened to kill father and family if he did not agree to daughter marriage’

Indian called father more than 28 times in six days and twice waited for hours outside his home to speak to father, Dubai court hears.

DUBAI // A 28-year-old labourer called a man more than 28 times in six days asking for his daughter’s hand in marriage and when he was turned down, he threatened to kill the girl, her father and their entire family.

Dubai Criminal Court heard Indian K A, who is facing charges of abusing telecommunication means to issue death threats, stalked the father of the girl he wanted to marry for nearly a week.

The father, fellow Indian K J, 47, said he received a call from an unknown number on July 6 this year. It was the defendant, who asked to meet with him.

“I told him I would be in church with my family so he hung up and called me again later that night and asked for my 19-year-old daughter’s hand in marriage, saying her loved her,” the father said. “I told him not to ever think of that and not to call me again.”

The labourer kept calling him at least three times a day for six days in a row, it is claimed. He even waited in the father’s apartment building car park from 6am until he left his home at 9am.

“When I spoke to him and asked him why he was there, he told me he needed money, so I asked the security guard to send him away and then I left,” said K J.

The defendant allegedly kept calling K J and stalking him to work, church and home before threatening him. “He told me he will kill me, my daughter and my entire family if I didn’t allow him to marry her,” said K J, who received the call in the middle of the night and then found the labourer waiting for him again in his car park.

K J this time asked the security guard to detain the defendant and he called police, who came and apprehended him.

K A confessed to charges and a verdict is expected on October 11.