Dubai: A mother and her daughter have been cleared of extracting Dh500,000 from an assistant manager under coercion after threatening to dishonour him and disclose that he had had sex with the daughter.

The Dubai Court of First Instance acquitted the 48-year-old Indian mother, S.S., and her 23-year-old daughter, H.B., of verbally threatening to shame their countryman and inform the authorities that he had had sex with H.B. in Ajman if he did not pay them money in February 2014.

Presiding judge Mohammad Jamal cleared the duo, who pleaded innocent and contended that the complainant brought the allegations against them out of malice.

They also provided the court with a written waiver from the Indian complainant.

The latter, an assistant manager, alleged to prosecutors that his friend, S., lured him to an Ajman hotel where he was left alone with H.B., who seduced him and tempted him to have sex with her.

“S. left me alone with H.B. She was drunk. She made sexual advances and played porn movies. Then she enticed me to have sex with her. When we finished, I went to wash up. When I came out she was crying. She called her mother, brother, father, and S. and a few other men who claimed they were from the police. They threatened to complain if I did not pay them Dh1 million. I issued a Dh500,000 cheque to H.B.,” he claimed.

Prosecutors had charged the mother and her daughter with threatening to dishonour the man and report him to the police for having sex with H.B. if he did not pay them money.

The assistant manager claimed that a few days later H.B. called him repeatedly and threatened to report him to the police if he did not pay her more. “I paid her Dh50,000. Then I paid her hospital bill worth Dh48,000. They continuously tried to take money from me until I complained to the police,” he alleged.

A policeman testified that primary interrogations led to the arrest of the mother and her daughter from their house in Sharjah.

According to Tuesday’s ruling, the court cleared the suspects after their reconciliation with the complainant.

The primary ruling remains subject to appeal within 15 days.