Man jailed for calling fiancée ‘idiot’ on WhatsApp in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi: A man has been jailed here for 60 days and fined 20,000 dirhams (around Rs 4 lakh) for calling his fiancée an “idiot” in a WhatsApp message. The man claimed to have used the word in a joking manner but his fiancée took it as an insult and filed a court case against him, the Khaleej Times reported on Tuesday. This case, the daily said, was one of the several court cases filed on the premise of a person sending something on WhatsApp as a “joke”, which the other person took “seriously”. (IANS)

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