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UAE court sentences 17 Indians to jail
The 17 Indian men, who were spared the death penalty after being convicted of murder last year, have been sentenced to six months in prison by a UAE court on charges of selling alcohol illegally. At the final hearing of the criminal case on Wednesday, the Sharjah Court of Appeal found the men guilty of the charge. The men had already been found guilty of killing a Pakistani man during a brawl in Sharjah in 2009 - a fight prosecutors claimed was part of a bootlegging turf war - but were spared the death sentence after paying blood money to the victim’s family last year.
The 17 Indian men, who were spared the death penalty after being convicted of murder last year, have been sentenced to six months in prison by a UAE court on charges of selling alcohol illegally. At the final hearing of the criminal case on Wednesday, the Sharjah Court of Appeal found the men guilty of the charge. The men had already been found guilty of killing a Pakistani man during a brawl in Sharjah in 2009 - a fight prosecutors claimed was part of a bootlegging turf war - but were spared the death sentence after paying blood money to the victim’s family last year.
