DUBAI // A 32-year-old woman sexually assaulted a man in a lift before robbing him of Dh4,500, Dubai Criminal Court heard.

Prosecutors told the court S S, an unemployed Jordanian, touched Indian M A, 23, and kissed him repeatedly in the lift of a building in Bur Dubai before making off with money from his wallet.

The woman denied charges of sexual assault and theft, saying she was a “God-fearing Muslim woman”.

The court heard the man was heading to an office on December 17. The woman was already in the lift when he entered.

“She was in a face veil and abaya, I got into the lift and the door closed. Then I pressed ‘four’,” said the man.

He said she asked him how he was before she lifted up her face veil and approached him. “She suddenly came closer and hugged me. I pushed her away but she was holding on to me and stuck her body to mine.”

The lift stopped on the fourth floor and, as the man tried to escape her grip to get out of the lift, she pulled him back inside.

“She actually managed to pull me back, then she pressed on floor ‘seven’ and, as the door closed, she started touching me intimately on my private parts,” he said.

He pressed floor ‘four’ again but she kissed him repeatedly and touched several body parts before he could break free and run out of the lift.

“When I later checked my wallet, which was in my back pocket, I noticed that Dh4,500 was missing and I realised that she had robbed me,” said M A.

The man called police, who arrested S S, and M A identified her at a police station. The next hearing will be on March 8.

salamir@thenational.ae