Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 529

Waiver in respect of the offence of kidnapping, which is the more serious offence. Has no effect on the less serious offence of indecent assault. The basis thereof. - Failure to initiate criminal proceedings for the more serious offence, or its being subject to a provision exempting from liability or punishment. Its import: non-application of the connection provided for in Article 84/1 of the Criminal Procedure Law. The reason therefor. - The challenged judgment's limitation of the legal effect of the female victim's father's waiver to the offence of kidnapping, which the Public Prosecution closed, to the exclusion of the offence of indecent assault, in which a judgment convicting the appellant was rendered. Correct.