Court to review abduction ruling
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 27: The Court of Cassation, headed by Counselor Saleh AlMorished has accepted the petition for reconsideration on the verdict issued by the Cassation Court to imprison an accused to 10 years with hard labor for impersonating and kidnapping the victim, reports AlSeyassah daily.
The court had earlier acquitted the accused and turned down the imprisonment verdict, and the judgment was published in two daily newspapers and the Official Gazette, after new evidence surfaced in the case.
Defense Lawyer, Heba Shamouh in a statement said: This historic ruling and the first of its kind is a luminous sign in the history of the Kuwaiti judiciary, especially since the request to reconsider the ruling was also the first of its kind after the verdict came into force of the law.
Meanwhile , the Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of a lower court, which had earlier acquitted three citizens of possessing narcotics and psychotropic substances with the intention to trade and consume, in addition to the possession of an unlicensed Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
The defendants attended the trial, while Attorney Muhammad Al-Jamie – lawyer for one of the accused – presented a list of requests including summoning the concerned officer.
All the defendants appealed the case, explaining the circumstances and arguing that there is no incriminating evidence. They added that the arrest warrant issued by the Public Prosecution was invalid because it was based on inconclusive investigations.
In another case the Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of the lower court and obliged the director of the Public Authority for the Disabled Affairs (PADA) to pay 50 dinars per month to the plaintiff, retroactively from October 2019 until the issuance of the verdict into the case, reports AlSeyassah daily
Lawyer Elaf Al-Saleh, representing the plaintiff, said her client suffers from a permanent visual impairment, and article (1) of Law 27/2008 gave him the right to receive 50 dinars per month, but PADA refrained from disbursing it without a legal justification.