The court’s decision came after it found no sufficient evidence to support the theft allegations.

The plaintiff had sought compensation for damages caused by a report made by the defendant, accusing her of breaking into his home and stealing property.

The initial ruling declared the plaintiff innocent, concluding that there was no concrete evidence in the case file to substantiate the accusations. However, the court clarified that the acquittal was based on the absence of evidence against the plaintiff, not on the validity of the incident itself. Therefore, the defendant’s act of reporting the crime was considered a legitimate exercise of his legal right.

The court further emphasised that because the defendant’s actions were legally justified, the conditions for civil liability and compensation were not met, leading to the rejection of the plaintiff’s lawsuit.

The Hanan Salem Al Shammili’s Law Firm, legal representative of the defendant, stated that the client had simply exercised the lawful right to report the damage and theft.

The defendant had discovered that an unknown individual had damaged the door of the villa, causing damages estimated at Dh3,000, as well as stolen clothes belonging to the family’s children.

While the initial court ruling found the defendant’s claims credible, the appeals court later acquitted the plaintiff, clarifying that the defendant lacked the intent to cause the alleged damage, but this did not deny the occurrence of the damage itself.

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The UAE’s achievements in the space sector will receive another boost as it launches the MeznSat satellite on a Russian Soyuz rocket soon, WAM reported.

MeznSat is among the satellites owned and operated by the UAE. According to the UAE Space Agency, MeznSat is being developed by young Emirati citizens from Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi and the American University in Ras Al Khaimah, who will also monitor and analyse data sent to the mainland station at the YahSat lab in Khalifa University and the sub-land station at American University.

During the project’s announcement, Dr. Eng. Mohammed Nasser Al Ahbabi, Director-General of the Agency, stressed that MeznSat will play a key role in analysing the atmosphere and providing information and photos that will help understand many issues facing our planet.

Satellites so far

The nation has been successfully making efforts to develop satellites for the past one decade, with the participation of many talented young UAE nationals, and in partnership with local and international entities.

The UAE owns many high-capacity satellites. The first was ‘DubaiSat-1’ launched in 2008 by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre to monitor climate change.

In 2013, DubaiSat-2 was launched for observation and monitoring purposes. Emirati engineers from the MBRSC contributed to its development.

Yah-1 satellite, launched by the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company in 2011, had objectives such as broadcasting TV programmes and providing other commercial services for 62 million viewers.

In 2012, Yah-2 was launched to provide YahClick satellite internet services to various corporations and individuals in the Middle East, African, and Central and Southwest Asia.

In 2018 came Yah-3 to offer equivalent services in South America and West Africa.

Nayif-1 was the first nano-metric satellite and the first ‘CubeSat’ Emirati educational satellite, which was launched in 2017 from India for educational purposes. It was developed by a group of students from the American University of Sharjah and the MBRSC.

‘KhalifaSat’, launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan in October 2018, was the first satellite to be completely developed and manufactured in the UAE.

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A Keralite worker who arrived at the Ras Al Khaimah airport for repatriation collapsed and died on June 30; he was later found to be COVID positive.

Pavithran Manchakkal, 50, was on his way to board a Spice Jet repatriation flight to Kozhikode when he died at the airport. He was going home on the very day his son had bagged an A+ in all subjects in the SSLC examination, the results of which were announced earlier in the day. Pavithran had hoped to surprise his son and also gift him a mobile phone.

Pavithran, who was a goldsmith working with a jewellery shop in Ajman, was without a job for the past three months because of the pandemic-induced closure of the shop. Chethana, an organisation working for the welfare of expatriate workers, had helped him procure a flight ticket. He took a bus from Ajman to the RAK airport. He was shifted to the Khalifa hospital when he collapsed at the airport.

He is survived by his wife and three children.

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