Court acquits Indian businessman of trafficking

Dubai, July 6: A Dubai court has acquitted an Indian businessman and his wife of trafficking two Indian boys, but jailed them for six months for using forged passports for the teenagers.

The court, which named the accused as AK, 54, and his wife MS, 52, were intercepted by an airport employee while they were escorting the children identified as JJ, 13, and JQ, 12, to Paris.

Dubai Court of Appeal cleared the couple of trafficking charges after their lawyer submitted a written consent from the boys' parents allowing them to escort them to France. The children have already returned to India. AK said he was accompanying the boys to France for Rs 800,000 to finance his daughter's marriage.

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