Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 172

Exemption from punishment is prescribed for the perpetrator's benefit and is not a justification of the act or an erasure of criminal responsibility. - The effect of the excuse exempting from punishment is to relieve the perpetrator of the penalty without affecting the existence of the offence or the consideration of the offender exempted from punishment as responsible for it. - The criterion for connection under the first paragraph of Article 84 of the Penal Code is that the connected offences exist and no acquittal has been rendered in any of them. The court's refraining from imposing the penalty for the more serious offence of abduction obliges it to extend this to the less serious offence of forcible indecent assault connected with it.