Dubai: A jobless man has been accused of picking up a fight with two clubbers and assaulting them with a sword after he suspected them of hurling peanuts at him in a pub.

The 23-year-old man, K.S., who does not carry personal identification documents, assaulted the Emirati clubbers outside the pub after he suspected that they had tossed peanuts at his table in June 2013.

Believed to have been driven by anger, K.S. asked the Emirati men to meet him outside the hotel to settle the matter between them, according to records, although they had told him that they hadn’t tossed anything at him or his companions in the pub.

Prosecutors accused the suspect of assaulting the Emirati clubbers with a sharp tool.

The suspect did not show up before the Dubai Court of First Instance where he was scheduled to enter a plea on Thursday.

According to the charge sheet, prosecutors said the suspect caused a 10 per cent permanent disability to one man and injured the other.

The 39-year-old Emirati, who was permanently disabled following the attack, claimed to prosecutors: “I was with my friends at the pub when the suspect turned towards our table … he asked if we had tossed peanuts at him and his friends. However, we denied this. Then he walked towards our table and asked to meet him outside to settle the dispute. When we stood outside, I informed him that we did not throw anything at him. A fight took place outside the pub and I was stabbed with a sword … I sustained a wound in my chest. My friend [the other man who was attacked] was also injured. The attackers then ran away … later we were summoned to the police station where we identified K.S. and confirmed to the police that he had attacked us with the sword.”

An Indian friend testified to prosecutors that he was clubbing at the pub with his two friends [the victims] when the incident happened.

“Shortly after the misunderstanding happened inside the pub, everybody moved outside. I chased my friends outside … five men dragged swords and knives out from their cars, attacked my friends and injured them,” he said.

Available records did not mention the reason why the case was referred to court in 2016 despite the fact that the alleged incident had happened in 2013.

Presiding judge Urfan Omar adjourned the case until the suspect is legally notified about the next hearing on August 4.