Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 583

The material element of the offence of indecent assault. The criterion for its establishment. - Criminal intent in this offence. What the law requires for its establishment. - The judgment stating that the condition for establishing the offence of indecent assault is that the act occur on a part of the victim's body considered a private part, while establishing against the respondent that lowering the female victim's trousers to her knee offends her sense of modesty and satisfies the elements of the offence of indecent assault. An error in the application of the law.