Crime

Court orders 2 firms to pay value of contract to company KUWAIT CITY, April 30: The Court of First Instance obligated a major contracting company to pay compensations worth KD 50,000 to the family of an Egyptian expatriate for the emotional and material harms they sustained due to his death …

KUWAIT CITY, April 30: A Kuwaiti citizen and a GCC national engaged in a fight at a coffee shop in Ardiya Industrial Area. Acting on information, a team of securitymen rushed to the scene and dealt with the situation. Initial investigation revealed they were playing cards before the quarrel. They …

KUWAIT CITY, April 30: A Kuwaiti citizen and an Iranian expatriate in their 30s respectively were apprehended by Ahmadi patrolmen at a security checkpoint in Mahboula area in possession of 58 pills of Larika. A security source said the two suspects hid the pills a cap to evade detection but …

KUWAIT CITY, April 30: The Ahmadi police have arrested a Kuwaiti a.k.a. ‘pink panther’ and impounded his pickup wagon painted pink upon orders of the Assistant Undersecretary for Security Affairs, Major-General Ibrahim Al-Tarrah, reports Al-Rai daily. According to security sources the Kuwaiti (born in 1997) was driving the vehicle without …

KUWAIT CITY, April 29: The amnesty period given for the residence law violators to leave the country without paying fees or correct their status ended Sunday, April 22, reports Al-Anba daily. However, a security source said 57,132 illegal residents have left the country and 20,964 of them corrected their status …

KUWAIT CITY, April 29: Personnel from the General Department for Drugs Control (GDDC) have arrested 4 Iranians for trading in opium, reports Al-Anba daily. The daily quoting security sources said personnel from the department acting on tip-off set a trap for one of the Iranians and caught him red-handed while …

KUWAIT CITY, April 29: The Court of Cassation overturned a verdict that earlier acquitted three Indians of murdering a domestic worker (maid) from the Philippines, and instead, sentenced all of them to life imprisonment without a possibility of parole. The case files indicated the Public Prosecution charged the three men …

KUWAIT CITY, April 29: Director of Farwaniya Mosques Department has filed a complaint with the Director of the Security Department in the governorate highlighting frequent thefts of audio devices from the mosques, reports Al-Rai daily. According to the complaint, the audio equipment has been stolen from six mosques in the …

KUWAIT CITY, April 29: Public Relations Department of Kuwait Municipality announced that the Department of Public Hygiene and Road Works in Mubarak Al-Kabeer Municipality carried out a raid on hawkers in various areas within the governorate during which 50 kgs of watermelons and 12 kgs of muskmelon were destroyed, two …

6 Doctors acquitted of fraud KUWAIT CITY, April 28: The Misdemeanor Court has canceled the verdict issued by a lower court which sentenced a Kuwaiti citizen to three-year imprisonment with hard labor. The court instead acquitted him from the charge of stealing 43 luxury wristwatches of the brand “Rolex” worth …