Dubai: A businessman and a dyer have been accused of having consensual sex after the latter falsely reported to police that his boss sodomised him in a minibus.

The 19-year-old Pakistani dyer was said to have walked into a police station and alleged that his countryman boss, the 23-year-old businessman, lured him to the company’s minibus and had forced sex with him in February.

Shortly after the alleged act of sodomy, the businessman accompanied the dyer to the market, according to records, and bought him a box of fruits to please him and refrain him from reporting to police.

Two weeks later, the dyer was believed to have complained to the police that his boss had allegedly had bizarre sex with him for a second time.

Police interrogations revealed that the dyer had falsely reported that his boss forced him to have sex with him.

Prosecutors charged the duo with having consensual sex.

The suspects pleaded guilty when they appeared before the Dubai Misdemeanours Court.

They asked the presiding judge to hand them a lenient punishment.

When questioned by prosecutors, the dyer claimed: “I called up Dubai Police’s Operation Room at 10pm and alleged to them that my boss had forced me to have sex with him. A police patrol came to our accommodation and when policemen questioned me, I claimed that the suspect, in his capacity as my boss, had threatened to cancel my visa and send me back home if I did allow him to have sex with me. I told police that the first time he lured me to a minibus and had forced sex with me … then he took me to the market from where he bought me a box of fruits to keep me silent and not report him to the police. I called the police and falsely reported that he had raped me because other co-workers, who have a labour dispute with him [the suspect], incited me to do so. We did not have forced sex.”

Meanwhile the suspect told prosecutors that the dyer was lying and he denied sodomising him.

He was quoted as telling prosecutors: “Few co-workers incited him to falsely report the police that I had raped him but they did so because we have a pending labour dispute … they do not want me to box them and be a partner in the company.”

Dubai police’s forensic examination report confirmed that the 19 year old is used to having sex.

Records said crime scene investigators found a jacket that had traces of the boss’s DNA and semen left in the accommodation.

When prosecutors confronted the dyer with the forensic report, he rejected it and denied having sex with others.

“The report is not true and is a lie,” he claimed.

A ruling will be heard later this month.