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RIYADH – The Court of Cassation in Riyadh announced that it endorsed a Shariah decision issued by the General Court in Riyadh for imprisonment of four people for a total of 34 years and 2,700 lashes of the whip after they were convicted assaulting expatriates and robbing them.

The Riyadh Police Department had received reports from a number of foreign taxi drivers that four people would get in their taxis and provide a destination, but before they got there, the men threatened them and robbed them of their money and mobile telephones, authorities said.

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MADINA – The District Court in Madina commuted the conviction of a 40-year-old woman fraudster by five years. She was earlier sentenced to 20 years and 1,500 lashes of the whip.

The latest decision was issued after Khaled Riyadh, a legal consultant and the womans lawyer, presented a 15-page document with 11 reasons for his objection to the initial ruling.

Okaz/Saudi Gazette has learned from informed sources that the District Court has referred the case to the Court of Cassation in Makkah for final attestation of the new verdict.

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RIYADH – The Court of Cassation has approved a General Courts decision sentencing three men to

28-year prison terms and lashes. The three, according to a statement issued by the Riyadh Police, were arrested for assaulting and

robbing expatriates and stealing cars. The court sentenced two of them to 10 years imprisonment and 1,000 lashes each. The third was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and 800 lashes. – Okaz/SG

RIYADH – The Court of Cassation attested Saturday a Shariah verdict issued by the General Court in Riyadh for three thieves to each receive a seven-year jail term and 700 lashes of the whip.

Al-Naseem Police Station received a report from a Saudi national that his store had been broken into and merchandise, including electronic appliances and games was stolen. DNA tests led to the identification of one culprit and arresting him and two accomplices. The men admitted to the crime of theft and their confessions were attested in the Shariah Court. – Okaz/SG

MAKKAH – A Saudi woman who fired on police in a shootout that resulted in her husbands death was sentenced Saturday to two years in jail and 400 lashes.

Judge Muhammad Al-Feaim of Makkah District Court issued the verdict against the woman who with her husband resisted security men on Sept. 22 last.

The woman registered her objection to the judges verdict, which necessitated the referral of her case dossier to the Court of Cassation.

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MAKKAH – Sheikh Ahmad Basheer Maafa, a judge at the Court of Cassation, has said that school pupils are entitled to sue Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) for “psychological and moral damage” caused by continual power failures during the examinations period, Al-Madina Arabic newpaper said this week.

“Anyone affected by power cuts has the right to sue the electricity company,” Judge Maafa said. “School pupils have the right to take the company to court over damage suffered due to the electricity being cut off without prior warning during this critical time which determines their future.”

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RIYADH – The Court of Cassation has approved a General Court verdict sentencing four thieves to total of 20 years in jail and 2,200 lashes of the whip.

According to a Tuwaiq Police Station statement issued Thursday, the thieves were implicated in stealing SR29,000 in cash and jewelry worth SR35,000 in addition to valuable personal items.

The police said a citizen reported a burglary incident to the security authorities concerned at Tuwaiq Police Station which set up a crack CID team to look for the thieves.

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JEDDAH – In line with a request from investors, the Court of Appeal in Riyadh has removed a three-judge committee from investigating the Real Estate and Date Product Investment Group for alleged fraud.

The investment groups owners allegedly took SR1.6 billion from 7,000 investors and disappeared with the money. The case has been ongoing for eight years and implicates several businessmen in Riyadh.

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SHAROURAH -The general court in Khobar has ordered Aramco, the giant oil company, to pay SR1 million (about $266,000) for causing the death of a prized female camel last year.

The heartbroken owner of the camel, Abdullah Al-Sairi, filed the lawsuit against Aramco last year after his three-year-old black camel fell into a hole in the desert that Aramco had dug and filled with crude oil. This incident took place while the female camel was grazing some 150 miles (250km) west of Ahsa.

Apparently there was no protective boundary around the large hole to prevent an accident and the black she-camel fell into it and died.

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NAJRAN – The Administrative Court at the Board of Grievances ruled on Saturday that the family of the Saudi boy who was swapped with a Turkish boy at a hospital in Najran six years ago does not deserve compensation from the Ministry of Health for the mistake it made.

Abdullah Bin Rajab Aal Musharraf, the Saudi familys lawyer, expressed his regret at the courts decision, which he said was delivered before getting a response from the health minister.

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