GCC man acquitted of setting car alight

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KUWAIT CITY, Feb 29: The Appeals Court upheld verdict of the Court of First Instance and acquitted a GCC citizen of deliberately setting fire to the plaintiff’s vehicle using inflammable petroleum products. Attorney Ahmad Al-Enezi considered petition to be malicious since the Criminal Evidences report indicated the fire residue had no trace of combustible petroleum products, indicating the report disproved the allegations of the plaintiff who claimed to have seen the defendant holding a bottle of flammable substance and throwing it inside the car.

Duo acquitted: The Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Faisal Al-Askari, acquitted two citizens of possessing narcotics due to the nullification of arrest and search procedures. According to the arresting officer, he stopped the two citizens after they committed a traffic violation. When he approached them, the two appeared to be intoxicated, prompting him to search and arrest them as he found narcotics in their possession.

In defense of one of the accused, Attorney Ayed Mahdi Al-Rashidi faulted the arrest and search procedures taken by the arresting officer as he failed to obtain a warrant from the Public Prosecution. Meanwhile, the Criminal Court chaired by Judge Ahmad Al-Yaseen acquitted two citizens and a Syrian of possessing narcotic pills for consumption purpose in Fintas area. According to the testimony of the officer who arrested the suspects, he was patrolling parts of Fintas area when he spotted the mark of an accident on the suspects’ vehicle. As he came closer, he discovered that people onboard the car were intoxicated. He went ahead and conducted the precautionary search on them and found narcotic pills with drug tools. Representing the fi rst accused, Attorney Muhammad Fahad Al-Mutairi faulted the police action of conducting a search on his client without legal justification, as he did not have any legal document allowing the search and arrest his client.

Not guilty: The Criminal Section in the Court of First Instance acquitted four Kuwaitis of consumption and possession of hashish and methamphetamine while they were inside a car on the way to a night party along Lulua chalets in Khairan. Counsel to the defendants, Attorney En’am Haider, urged the court to dismiss the case, citing wrong arrest procedures. She argued that her clients were searched and arrested without a warrant from the Public Prosecution.

Ex-MP acquitted: The Appeals Court upheld the verdict of the First Instance Court and acquitted former MP Mubarak Al-Duweila of the case fi led against him by the Egyptian embassy in Kuwait. Al-Duweila was accused of issuing statements deemed offensive to the Egyptian political leadership during an interview with a local TV channel.

By Jaber Al-Humoud Al-Seyassah Staff

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