Dubai, May 18: A couple, who claimed they had an out-of-court marriage, admitted to having consensual sex in a car in Al Mamzar Park because they did not have proper accommodation.
Prosecutors charged the 32-year-old Bangladeshi man, J.A., and his 21-year-old countrywoman, M.S., with having consensual sex.
J.A. was also accused of unlawfully working for a different sponsor and staying in the country illegally without paying the accumulated fines to the Naturalisation and Residency Department. The defendants pleaded guilty when they appeared before the Dubai Misdemeanour Court on Wednesday.
Prosecution records show that the woman's boss realised that she was pregnant and reported her to the police. M.S. was employed as a hairdresser.
The boss, who owns the salon, testified that she reported M.S. to the police after M.S. admitted to having been intimate with J.A. in his car in Al Mamzar Park. M.S. confessed after her arrest that J.A. had taken her to an imam [person who leads prayer] and they were married at a mosque in Al Qusais.
"I am not guilty. We got married and had consensual sex in the back seat of my husband's car in the park. On April 25, my pregnancy became obvious and that's when my boss reported [me to] the police. I slept with J.A. but after he became my husband," M.S. said.
"I cannot remember how many times we had sex in his car, but the last intercourse we had was on April 16. The imam did not provide us with any document or marriage certificate, but he just pronounced us as husband and wife," the woman claimed.
The unemployed man admitted that he met M.S. at Abu Hail Shopping Centre.
"We went to the imam and married. We had sex five times in my car… thrice in Al Mamzar and twice in a parking lot because we did not have a proper house," J.A. claimed to prosecutors.
A judgment will be heard on May 27.
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