Assembly refers Interior Minister grilling to panel

KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday agreed with a comfortable majority to refer the grilling against Interior Minister Sheikh Ahmad Al-Humoud Al-Sabah to the legal and legislative committee to study if it breached the constitution. Forty-six MPs voted in favour of the request made by Sheikh Ahmad at the start of a heated debate sparked by strong accusations made by MP Safa Al-Hashem, who filed the grilling along with MP Youssef Al-Zalzalah. The minister said the grilling contained a number of suspected violations of the constitution, especially with regards to allegations that former Kuwaiti MPs were accused of being members of a terror cell associated with a similar cell in the United Arab Emirates.