Court Acquits A Citizen

The Court of Appeals upheld the verdict issued by the Court of First Instance which acquitted a Kuwaiti citizen who was accused of drug possession and peddling. The Court of Appeals also cancelled the verdict that sentenced the citizen to three-year imprisonment with hard labor, and instead refrained from pronouncing penalty against him and obligated him to pay bail bond worth KD 200.

According to secret investigations held by the Drug Control General Department, information was received that the citizen’s friend was in possession of drugs. When officers raided the friend’s house, they found a black bag which contained the drugs. When they questioned him, he admitted that he received the drugs from his friend who is the defendant.

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He then led officers to the suspect’s house from where officers confiscated more drugs, tools suspected to be drug paraphernalia and some cash. They arrested the citizen, who admitted that the drugs and other confiscated items belong to him.

However, during the court session, the defense counsel Lawyer Enaam Haider indicated that the warrant issued by the Public Prosecution was illegal due to which the investigations carried out by the officers are considered illegal. She said the case documents do not contain sufficient evidences to prove the charges against her client, stressing that he was not arrested while he was selling drugs.

Lawyer Haider indicated that the tools discovered from her client’s house are not drug paraphernalia used by drug traders such as sensitive weighing scale or drug measuring tools. She stressed that they admitted the confiscated drugs were for their own use and not for selling to others.

 

SOURCE : ARABTIMES

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