SC to hear today plea seeking intervention to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya
The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a petition seeking urgent intervention in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen.
The Supreme Court will on Thursday hear a petition seeking urgent intervention in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen.
The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said Indian national Nimisha Priya's execution in Yemen has been postponed and urged all sides to stay away from misinformation on the case while reiterating the sensitivity of the issue.
The office of Kanthapuram Musliyar stated on Tuesday that it stands by its earlier announcement regarding the revocation of Nimisha Priya’s death sentence.
Earlier, the office of Indian Grand Mufti Kanthapuram AP Abubakker Musliyar had claimed that "the death sentence of Nimisha Priya, which was previously suspended, has been overturned.
The death sentence for Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse who was convicted of murder in Yemen, has been "overturned" and "completely" cancelled, the office of Indian Grand Mufti, Kanthapuram AP Abubakker Musliyar, stated on Monday.
Congress leader K C Venugopal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking urgent intervention to save Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse facing execution in Yemen.
The case of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse sentenced to death in Yemen, has raised serious questions about the protection of citizens abroad, the role of the Indian government in handling such cases, and the broader implications of foreign legal systems on our nationals.
Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen, is a trained nurse and has worked in private hospitals in Yemen for a few years. She was awarded a life sentence in 2020 after being convicted of killing one Talal Abdo Mahdi, who she accused of fraud and abuse, in 2017.
Yemeni President Rashad al-Alimi has approved the death sentence for Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, convicted of murder in Yemen. The execution is scheduled to take place within a month.
Priya was sentenced to death in a 2017 case of murder of a Yemeni national.
