Doha: The Court of First Instance punished a man who in police disguise stole money and credit cards from people. Pretending as a policeman, he intercepted cars and asked for victims’ ID and credit cards and stole money from their wallets. The court sentenced him to one year in jail.
According to the case documents, the public prosecution referred a young person to the court on charges of theft of cash.
A witness testified that he was with the accused in his car. The accused wore a civil cloth when the incident took place. Then he changed into police clothes and stopped two cars on the road and asked their passengers to show their wallets and money.
According to the investigator, he had carried in his car a baggage that contained a police uniform and a number of credit cards belonging to different persons.
The defendant was sentenced in absentia. The court had sentenced him to a three-year prison sentence first. When the accused challenged the verdict, the case file was reopened before the court again. In its new judgment, the court commuted it to one-year imprisonment.
The Peninsula newspaper posts these kind of legal cases from the court, to raise awareness about the dangers of violating laws or infringing on others in the country.
