A request to keep quiet at night ended with one resident bludgeoned with a chair, according to a case now before the Sharjah Misdemeanour Court.
The defendant, an Asian national, has rejected the charge of attacking his roommate and inflicting physical harm. He told the court the encounter amounted to no more than a routine quarrel between the two men.
The complainant told a different story. As reported by Gulf Today, he said he had been trying to get some rest at the shared residence but found it impossible because of the disturbance his roommate was creating. When he went over and asked the man to stop, he says the response was a chair swung at him in view of others present in the accommodation.
Those blows left him with wounds to his head and several areas of his body, injuries serious enough that he pursued the matter legally and brought it before the court.
The court has put off the proceedings to a future date and ordered witnesses present at the scene to appear, intending to take their accounts and establish what actually unfolded inside the residence.
