KUWAIT CITY, Aug 3: A case has been filed against a Kuwaiti man at the Al-Naeem Police Station in Jahra for beating his wife because she refused to drink alcohol with him, reports Al-Rai daily.

According to reports the husband came home drunk after visiting a friend carrying with him a bottle of foreign booze. Not satisfied, he wanted to drink more and invited his wife to share a drink with him.
When the wife refused the man lost his temper and began verbally abusing his wife. When he began to beat her, she ran to a neighbor’s house and called her brothers.

The brothers rushed to her rescue, took her to the Jahra Hospital and got a medical report showing injuries on her body and then filed a complaint with the police station.

In an unrelated development, an Indian man, whose identity has not been disclosed, has been admitted to the Mubarak Al-Kabir Hospital with a badly bruised upper limb, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.

According to reports the victim works at one of the markets in Salmiya and he was allegedly carrying a sheet of glass. He tripped and fell and the glass broke and badly cut one of his arm.
The daily did not give more details.