Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 351

Searching a person, his residence, or his correspondence to seize things used in, resulting from, or connected with the offence whenever the requirements of the investigation necessitate this and there is no other means - 199 - Criminal Procedures and Trials of obtaining them. Permissible for the investigator. Article 80 of the Criminal Procedures and Trials Law. - Whenever arrest is permissible, search is permissible. The condition thereof: the objective of the person conducting the search must be to seize things connected with the offence for which the person was arrested, and he must not seek things connected with a different offence. - Arresting the appellant and the other convicted person on an accusation of theft, and the investigator’s referral of the appellant to Forensic Evidence, which is a form of searching him for a narcotic and not for anything connected with the theft. Not permissible. The judgment’s conclusion that this search and the evidence it yielded were valid. Vitiates it and requires its cassation.