During the search operation, the mother and two sisters of one of the defendants physically assaulted the officers, while another sister slammed a glass door on a drug enforcement officer’s hand, causing a deep wound that required hospital treatment. Meanwhile, the Criminal Court acquitted several individuals of threatening a citizen with an electric shock to force him to sign three promissory notes. Case files indicate that the complainant revealed during investigations that he received a call through Instagram from a person requesting to meet him at his residence to discuss a trade show project. During the meeting in his diwaniya, he was surprised as the caller came with a group of people. All of them allegedly threatened him, while one of the accused took a knife and an electric shock device, and asked those present to close the door of the diwaniya. This prompted the complainant to call a relative to provide KD2,000. After failing to do so, he was forced to sign the promissory notes and surrender his civil identification card. Attorney Abdullah Al-Alanda, who represented one of the defendants (the caller) in court, argued that the accusation was invalid, and that the material and moral elements of the crime were absent. He asserted that the documents had no conclusive evidence proving his client committed or participated in the threat, and that the complainant’s statements are nothing more than hearsay and are not supported by any evidence