Bakery worker from Maharashtra executed for raping, killing two little girls in UAE
Last month Abdul Aziz Mohamed Parkar was tried for raping and killing two little girls in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. He was swiftly executed 48 hours later. The incident caused great uncertainty among the sizeable Asian community that resides there. Thirty-one-year old Parkar, a bakery worker from a small village in Maharashtra, had been living in Dubai, off and on, since 1973, moving to Ras Al Khaimah in the late '70s.
Day after day, huge crowds thronged the high-domed Islamic-style building that housed the state's law courts and the dilapidated, mortar-walled prison behind Ras Al Khaimah's police headquarters for a glimpse of the self-confessed murderer of four-year-old Sheikha Obeid Sultan and six-and-a-half-year-old Laila Ahmed Hamdan.
The people of Ras Al Khaimah, a small somnolent town forcing itself into the mainstream, were, in fact, well-acquainted with the 31-year-old bakery worker from a small village in Maharashtra. They knew him as a quiet and devout Muslim who offered 'namaaz' five times daily and fasted regularly during the Ramzan month of austerity.