KUWAIT CITY, Sept 24: MP Musallam Al-Barrak has asked the Parliamentary Committee for Interior and Defense Affairs to summon all Interior Ministry officials who were responsible for detaining two police officers in an army prison for arresting a man and a woman involved in social misconduct, reports Al-Rai daily.

Al-Barrak said that this is another proof of the absence of security and respect for law in the reign of incumbent Interior Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Khaled Al-Sabah. He added that for the third time, the minister failed to appear at the hearings of the committee on the allegations of the release of two other expatriates who were involved in illegal abortion, medical practice without license and drug proliferation.

“To make matters worse, we are now confronted with the issue of a top official ordering the release of a Kuwaiti woman and an Arab man involved in misconduct and asked the two officers who made the arrest not to register the case. The officers were detained, threatened with dismissal and delay of promotion, after being insulted by the Kuwaiti woman who told them she was above the law,” he added.

Al-Barrak called on the Interior and Defense Affairs Committee to move swiftly and ascertain the veracity of the claims and find out the identity of all those involved in this unfortunate incident.

Meanwhile, MP Mohammed Hayef has asked Interior Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to clarify if a local daily’s report that a top ministry official intervened and got released a man and woman, who were arrested for social misconduct, was true, reports Al-Anba daily.

Sources said the top official ordered the release of the two and asked the two officers who made the arrest not to register the case. Allegedly, the top officer, instead of commending the police officers, ordered that they be detained.

Hayef asked the minister if the allegations were true and asked for the identity and rank of the top official. He also asked if the man and woman had any past criminal record, and what action the ministry took against the said top official.