KUWAIT CITY, Jan 22: Police have arrested three girls — a Kuwaiti and two GCC nationals, one of whom is a minor — for wearing no clothes except abayas (the black all covering garment worn by women) at a café in a commercial complex in Salmiya, reports Al-Rai daily.

A small boy reportedly told his mother that he saw a naked girl in the café and the mother then noticed the three girls and called the Operations Department of the Interior Ministry. The three girls told police that they had consensual sex in an apartment, consumed alcohol and got drunk. The girls added that when they regained their consciousness, they came to the café to have coffee.

Police made a phone call to the father of the two GCC girls, but he said he could not come to Kuwait as he was busy. The girls were referred to the Criminal Investigations Department.

Meanwhile, Farwaniya police have arrested a 54-year-old Kuwaiti man who was wanted by law for swindling people to the tune of KD 37,000 and various other financial crimes, like issuing dud cheques, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily. Police patrols on routine duty had stopped the man for reckless driving in Khaitan, but he sped up. Police then chased him and caught him just as he was about to reach home and referred him to the Sentences Enforcement Department.