2 Days Before Execution, Supreme Court To Hear Plea Today To Save Kerala Nurse Nimisha Priya
The Supreme Court will hear a plea seeking urgent diplomatic intervention to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya from execution in Yemen on July 16.
Two days before her execution, a plea seeking direction to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya will be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday.
Thirty-eight-year-old Nimisha Priya, from Palakkad district of Kerala, will be executed in Yemen on July 16 for murder charges.
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta is likely to hear the matter.
The plea was filed by an organisation, 'Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council', which is extending legal support to assist the nurse, and cited a media report that stated that the tentative date for execution of Priya has been fixed as July 16 by the Yemeni administration.
The matter was mentioned for urgent hearing on July 10 after advocate Subhash Chandran KR said diplomatic channels need to be explored at the earliest.
He had submitted that payment of blood money to the family of the deceased permissible under Sharia law can be explored.
The family of the deceased may pardon the Kerala nurse if blood money is paid, he submitted.
The bench asked the counsel to serve a copy of the petition to the Attorney General and sought his assistance.
Nimisha Priya was convicted of murdering her Yemeni business partner in 2017. She was sentenced to death in 2020, and her final appeal was rejected in 2023.
She is currently imprisoned in a jail in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen.
On Saturday, AICC general secretary KC Venugopal claimed that the central government was not taking any steps to intervene with the execution of Nimisha Priya.
Venugopal contended that it was 'sad" that the Centre was not showing any urgency in the matter despite the issue being brought to the attention of the Prime Minister and the External Affairs Ministry.
The AICC general secretary, who is also the MP from Alappuzha Lok Sabha constituency, in a post on X, wrote that the death sentence imposed on Priya was a 'grave travesty of justice".
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