MoI employee acquitted of forgery charges, reinstated
Comp won in flight cancellation
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 19: The Court of Appeals overturned the verdict issued by the Court of First Instance which sentenced an employee of Ministry of Interior to five-year imprisonment, dismissed him from his job, and ordered him to pay back the salary he received since the time he was appointed in 2000. The court instead acquitted him of the charges of presenting fake certificates and documents in order to attain the job.
Lawyer Jarrah Al-Enezi, the legal counsel of the defendant, said the investigations were not serious, and the accusations leveled against his client lacked evidences.
He denied that his client intended to commit forgery, stressing on the illogicality of the situation.
Woman compensated: The Court of Appeals obliged the Commercial Department of Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) to pay a Kuwaiti woman a sum equivalent to 4,150 units of the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) as defined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) tariff and in accordance with its value on the day the ruling was issued, based on a statement from the Central Bank of Kuwait or the competent authorities as a result of cancellation of its flight to Sarajevo.
Representing the citizen was Lawyer Ali Al-Ali who explained that his client had booked a round-trip ticket via Kuwait Airways, and the flight was due to depart from Kuwait to the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. However, his client’s flight was delayed by four hours, and after she boarded the plane, she had to wait onboard for another four hours before she was told that her flight has been cancelled.
His client refused another flight itinerary, and she booked a flight with another airlines to Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, which was a different flight path in a bid to avoid losing her annual trip. She lost the money she had spent for making hotel reservations and for tickets to Bosnia. She also had to wait until the following day to receive her luggage.
The plaintiff was compensated based on Montreal Convention (formally, the Convention for the Unification
of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air).
Forgery claims: Head of the First Instance Court Judge Dr Adel Bouresli has referred for investigation a number of complaints regarding the alleged forgery of claims statements, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting sources.
Sources revealed the results of investigations proved the seriousness of the complaints and suspicions of forgery; hence, the decision to refer the complaints to the Public Prosecution.
Sources said it is not easy to deal with these complaints once proven as the rights and properties of litigants will be undermined due to the forgery which gives them the right to appeal the verdicts. Sources added the person who appeals could be involved in the forgery or he could be the one who filed the case.
Decision cancelled: The Court of Cassation has canceled a decision related to illegal admission of a batch of experts in Ministry of Justice, as the appointed experts did not undergo written exams or personal interviews, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting legal sources.
They explained that the concerned authorities are waiting for the report of the verdict in order to determine whether 230 of the 560 experts in the batch are affected.
The verdict exposed a huge scandal in terms of the use of “wasta” and lack of respect for competencies.
The sources revealed that a bad aspect in this regard is that those experts were involved in the work for three years, and submitted reports in the cases they handled, adding that judicial verdicts were issued based on their reports, which means those verdicts are invalid if no appeal is made to the verdict for final cancelation of their appointment.
‘It’s self defense’: The detention renewal judge has ordered the release of the guard of a farm, who has been charged with the premeditated murder, on 100 dinars bail but slapped a travel ban on him, reports Al-Anba daily.
The incident dates back to last September, when the victim – a Gulf national with another person attacked the guard at the farm in Rahiya in the Jahra Governorate.
The defence attorney, Mohammad al-Hamidi, told the daily his client was defending himself and did not intend to kill the victim but protect himself.