Sensitive matter, in touch with friendly governments: India on Nimisha Priya case
"This included concerted efforts in recent days to seek more time for the family of Nimisha Priya to reach a mutually agreeable solution with the other party. The local authorities in Yemen have postponed carrying out her sentence scheduled for July 16. We continue to closely follow the matter and render all possible assistance. We are also in touch with some friendly governments," he said.WHO IS NIMISHA PRIYA?Priya, a native of Kerala's Palakkad district, is accused of drugging and murdering her local business partner, Talal Abdo Mehdi, a Yemeni national, with the help of another nurse in 2017. Priya has challenged the charges, but the courts have dismissed her appeals.The nurse was sentenced to death by a local court in Yemen in 2020, and her final appeal in Yemen's Supreme Court, challenging the decision, was dismissed in 2023. In January this year, Mahdi al-Mashat, President of the rebel Houthis' Supreme Political Council, approved her execution.Priya has been working in Yemen as a nurse since 2008. She travelled to the country with her husband Tommy Thomas after their marriage in 2011. Due to the civil war in Yemen in 2014, her husband returned to Kerala with their daughter, while Priya stayed in Yemen.She later partnered with Mehdi to open a nursing home. According to her, the murder of the Yemeni national was committed in self-defence and under duress. The nurse alleged that Mehdi physically abused her, took possession of her passport and controlled her finances. She claimed she administered sedatives in an attempt to retrieve her passport, but he died from an overdose.She is currently jailed in Sana'a Central Prison and was to be executed on Wednesday. However, it was put on hold amid a hectic diplomatic outreach by India to the victim's family and saving her from execution.Meanwhile, the family of Mehdi has made it clear that the family will not accept any offer of pardon or compensation and that Priya should not get mercy and be executed.- EndsTune InMust Watch
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