DOHA: A lower criminal court here has sentenced a young Asian Muslim to 40 lashes and fined him QR500 after he was found guilty of drinking and passing on a piece of paper with his mobile number written on it to a housemaid in his neighbour’s home with an intention to befriend her.
The convict — a barber — was, though, spared by the court for having passed on his phone number to the maid apparently because he was in a drunken state and was punished for drinking despite being a Muslim.
The Public Prosecution had filed three charges against him — drinking, disturbing neighbours and handing his telephone number to a woman with a bad intention. A man from the family that employed the maid lodged a complaint with the police saying that an individual living in their building had passed on a piece of paper with his cellphone digits to his housemaid. Since the complaint was lodged immediately after the incident, the police found the man in a drunken state. He confessed that he had got drunk early in the morning and had passed on his mobile phone number to the maid.
The Peninsula
