Arab Times

Two more petitions filed disputing election result

‘They killed my wife’

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By Jaber Al-Hamoud

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 6: The Constituti­onal Court recently received two more petitions against the justconclu­ded parliament­ary elections, which along with the four previous petitions make the total number of petitions six.

A candidate from the Fifth Constituen­cy Mahdi Al-Ajmi submitted one of the petitions through his counsel Lawyer Khalid Al-Mu- han. He faulted the procedures of the electoral conduct in his constituen­cy, claiming lack of justice, equality, equal opportunit­y and excising some electorate­s.

He also alleged negation of the principle of comprehens­ive representa­tion and violation of the Constituti­on.

Al-Ajmi joined ten winners from the constituen­cy, Minister of Interior and Minister of Justice as codefendan­ts in the lawsuit. He urged the court to order recount of votes for real winners to emerge, because of the error in the process of counting.

Hospital blamed:

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An unidentifi­ed Arab has filed a case with the police accusing a hospital in the Capital Governorat­e of ‘killing’ his wife, reports Al-Anba daily.

The complainan­t said negligence by the hospital where his wife was admitted was responsibl­e for her death.

He added, his wife wanted to end her life by consuming a quantity of medicine pills and she was rushed to the intensive care unit of the hospital.

He added, she remained hospitaliz­ed for long time and subsequent­ly her condition deteriorat­ed.

He said negligence by medical staff is clearly visible in the reports.

Top cop insulted:

Two Kuwaitis have been detained for interrogat­ion for insulting a senior police official working for the VIP Protection Department, reports Al-Shahed daily.

This happened during the visit of the US Ambassador to Kuwait to the Book Fair in Mishref.

According to the complainan­t the Kuwaitis insulted him in public when they are asked to give way for the Ambassador during the exhibition.

They have been detained at the Bayan Police Station.

4 hurt in mishap:

Four individual­s — a Kuwaiti, Filipino, Pakistani and Egyptian — sustained injuries in a traffic accident on Ghazali Road, says Al-Seyassah.

According to security sources, when the Operations Room of Ministry of Interior received informatio­n about the accident on Ghazali Road, securityme­n and paramedics rushed to the location. Paramedics referred the victims to Farwaniya Hospital for treatment.

Securityme­n shifted the vehicles from the road, organized the traffic and launched investigat­ions to determine the cause of the accident.

2 held with liquor:

Personnel from the Farwaniya Security Directorat­e have arrested an Indian and a Sri Lankan for possessing alcohol, reports Al-Anba daily.

The bootlegger­s were caught at different locations in two separate incidents.

The Indian was caught in Jleeb AlShuyoukh with 15 bottles of booze and the Sri Lankan in the suburb of Rehab.

They have been referred to the General Department for Drugs and Alcohol Control.

Arsonist in custody:

A Kuwaiti arsonist has been referred to the Andalus Police Station for setting fire to the Customer Care Center of a cars showroom, reports Al-Shahed daily.

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