‘Not guilty of causing injury’
KUWAIT CITY, March 3: The Criminal Court chaired by Judge Hussein Al-Qallaf dismissed a court’s decision that fined an Asian employee in absentia. The court refrained from uttering penalty against the defendant after weighing circumstances leading to the crime, and the defendant was asked to sign an undertaking of good conduct. He was standing trial for causing injury to his boss by accident.
The case file indicated the plaintiff was supervising employees at a location where they were offloading wood from a container when the rope binding the wood together broke suddenly and fell on the supervisor. Lawyer Hawraa Al-Habib defended the case. Hearing delayed: The Criminal Court, presided over by Judge Mohammad AlKhalaf, adjourned until March 24 the hearing on a case filed against three men accused of killing a Lebanese doctor at the Avenues Mall.
It has been reported the accused denied the charge while the relatives of the victim appealed for justice.
One of the accused told the court he had a heated argument with the doctor over a parking space. This prompted him to buy a knife from a shop inside the mall and used it to stab the doctor. He dumped the knife in a nearby garbage bin after the stabbing incident. He then went home and later visited a friend’s camping site. An hour after the inci- dent, he received a call from another friend who informed him about the death of the doctor. At the time, he thought of escaping through the Kuwaiti-Saudi borders. He also asserted that he acted out of rage and had no intention of killing the doctor.
Petition
postponed: The Court of Appeals, chaired by Judge Anwar Al-Enezi, postponed until March 25 the hearing on a petition filed by the Public Prosecution against the ruling of a lower court that had acquitted former MP Obeid Al-Wasmi of involvement in a State Security case.
Case files indicate Al-Wasmi has been charged with defaming the Amiri entity publicly in a seminar at the diwaniya of former MP Dr Jamaan Al-Harbash in early 2010. He has also been accused of inciting some securitymen to commit acts of rebellion by defying the orders of the higher authorities to disperse the illegal gatherings. Hearing in 2014: The Constitutional Court, presided over by Judge Yousuf Al-Mutawa, adjourned until the beginning of Jan 2014 deliberations on 23 petitions against the results of the parliamentary elections in December 2012 in the First, Second and Third constituencies, as well as the one-manone-vote decree.
In Sunday’s session, the lawyer for the National Assembly demanded for the dismissal of the petitions on grounds that the court has no jurisdiction over the case because it is political in nature. He also argued that decree number 20/2012 on the one-man-one-vote system is in line with articles of the Constitution, leading to the establishment of the National Higher Committee for Elections. He added decree number 58/2012 was issued after the people called for parliamentary elections.