Today in Politics: SC to hear plea seeking diplomatic intervention to save Indian nurse on death row in Yemen

Indian Express

14-07-2025

The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to use diplomatic channels to save an Indian nurse, who is likely to be executed in Yemen on July 16 for murdering her Yemeni business partner.
A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta is likely to hear the matter.
The matter was mentioned for urgent hearing on July 10 after advocate Subhash Chandran K R 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.
Nimisha Priya, 38, a nurse from Palakkad district of Kerala, was convicted for 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.
SC may hear plea on probe agencies summoning lawyers
The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a suo motu case over the issue of investigation agencies summoning lawyers who offer opinions to parties and represent them in cases.
A Bench of Chief Justice B R Gavai and justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria will hear the matter. The case comes in the wake of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoning senior lawyers Arvind Datar and Pratap Venugopal.
However, on June 20, the ED directed its investigating officers not to issue summons to any advocate in money laundering investigations being carried out against their clients, adding that an exception to this rule can only be made after 'approval' by the agency's director.
President Murmu in Odisha
President Droupadi Murmu will be on a two-day visit to Odisha from Monday, her office said in a statement.
The President will grace the fifth convocation ceremony of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Bhubaneswar on Monday, it said.
On July 15, Murmu will grace the 13th annual convocation of Ravenshaw University and also lay the foundation stone for the redevelopment of three buildings of Ravenshaw Girls' High School at Cuttack, said the statement issued on Sunday.
She will also grace the birth anniversary celebration of Adikabi Sarala Das and present the Kalinga Ratna Award-2024 at Cuttack, it added.
SC to hear plea use of tricolour
The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a plea seeking directions to the Centre and the Election Commission (EC) to take effective steps to prevent any political party or religious group from using the national flag for 'partisan or religious purposes'.
The plea has also sought directions to the authorities concerned to strictly enforce provisions of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971, and the Flag Code of India, 2002, to ensure that the national flag was treated with utmost respect.
The petition would come up for hearing before a Bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justices K Vinod Chandran and N V Anjaria.
Tripura Congress protest against BJP's 'anti-people policies'
Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) will stage demonstrations in all the district headquarters on Monday against 'anti-people policies' of the BJP-led government in the state, a senior party leader said.
Accusing the government of failing to address people's problems, TPCC president Asish Kumar Saha said the state electricity company has hiked power tariff by installing smart meters.
'We want the government-controlled Tripura State Electricity Corporation Ltd (TSECL) to abandon the plan to roll out smart meters across the state. The consumers are aggrieved by the move,' he told reporters in South Tripura's Belonia on Saturday.
New Puducherry minister to take oath
The swearing-in ceremony for the newly appointed Puducherry Minister A John Kumar and three nominated MLAs is set to take place on Monday.
Lieutenant Governor K Kailashnathan will administer the oath of office to the newly appointed BJP minister at Raj Nivas at 1.30 pm, while Speaker R Selvam will swear in the nominated legislators—V Selvam, G N S Rajasekaran, and E Theeppainthan— at his chamber in the Legislative Assembly complex, sources said.
– With PTI inputs