Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 503

The offense of kidnapping provided for in Article 179/1 of the Penal Code. It is established where the offender's will is directed toward taking the kidnapped person from the hands of his family and relatives, removing him from the place they intended for him, and seriously severing his connection with them. The judgment's conclusion that the respondent received his children voluntarily from their mother. Its ruling of acquittal. No violation of the law.