KUWAIT CITY, Feb 23: The Criminal Court Tuesday after listening to the argument of lawyers defending Nasra Al-Enezi set March 31, 2010 to issue a verdict in the case. Nasra has been charged with setting fire to a wedding tent in Oyoun which has resulted in the death and injury to scores of people.
During the session defense attorneys Zaid Al-Khabbaz and Saqqaf Al-Saqqaf, requested the court to acquit their client because they said there is no evidence to prove she set the tent ablaze.
The lawyers also said there were no eyewitnesses who saw her setting the tent on fire. Moreover, they said police found no fingerprints on the bottle which allegedly contained fuel which the woman used to light the tent.
The lawyers said the suspect had admitted to the charges under duress because police had arrested her brothers and kept them in detention to force her to admit to the charges.
The defense lawyers also told the court the witnesses had all testified that they did not get the smell of benzene in the area on the day of the incident before or after the fire. This can prove that the fire was not caused either by benzene or their client but some other factor, they added.
Earlier the suspect had told the investigators and the Public Prosecution that she became crazy when she learned that her husband was going to marry another woman.
She added she threatened him not to marry but he did not listen to her pleas and went ahead with the wedding procedures.
On the day of the wedding, she said she took a taxi from her family home in Rabiya, bought petrol from one of the petrol stations, went to the tent and set it on fire and returned home in the same taxi.
Until now the fire has resulted in the death of 57 women. Moreover, a lot of women have suffered first degree burns and are in a very bad shape.
The session was presided over by Judge Adel Al-Saqer.

Vice dean beaten: a Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Arts has filed a complaint with the Kaifan Police Station accusing a student of the same faculty of humiliating and beating him, reports Al-Rai daily.
The victim said the student broke into his office, verbally insulted him, physically assaulted him and escaped.
However, the Al-Shahed daily quoting sources said the student was allegedly annoyed because the victim had given high marks to a female student although she had not done well in her exams.
The daily also said the suspect requested the victim to change the mark sheet and when the latter refused, an argument ensued between them which ended in the suspect attacking the professor.

Selling artefacts: The Hawa-lli police have arrested an Arab man for selling smuggled antiquities, reports Al-Rai daily.
The daily quoting security sources said police acting on information put the man under surveillance, set a trap for him and caught him red-handed while selling some stolen goods to a police agent for KD 370,000.
The daily gave no other details. 

Call traders held: Personnel from the Criminal Investigation Department have arrested four Bangladeshis for robbing telephone lines and offering illegal overseas call services to residents of Hawalli, reports Awan daily.
The daily quoting security sources said police acting on a tip-off raided the apartment of the illegal service providers in Hawalli and confiscated communications devices and a computer and referred them to the authorities. 

‘Blue’ pills stolen: Police are looking for unidentified persons for burglarizing the camp of a Kuwaiti man at an unidentified location, reports Al-Dar daily.
According to a complaint with by the police by a Kuwaiti man, who is in his 40s said the thief escaped with his bedroom set worth KD 400, tents, cooking gas cylinders, an electricity generator and two packets containing Viagra pills, reports Al-Dar daily.
Personnel from the Criminal Evidences Department have lifted fingerprints to identify the culprits.

180 vendors caught: The Ahmadi police during a campaign against residence law violators have arrested 180 street vendors including violators of labor laws, reports Al-Qabas daily.
According to security sources police have confiscated large quantities of fire works and foodstuffs.