Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya Photo: X/@MattooShashank Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya Photo: X/@MattooShashank Yemen President Rashad al-Alimi on Tuesday inked the death sentence for Kerala nurse Nimish Priya, who was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen. As per reports, the sentence will be executed in a month.
Since 2017, Priya has been imprisoned in Yemen for the alleged murder of a Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mahdi after she injected him with sedatives in an attempt to retrieve her passport from his possession.
Priya's mother Prema Kumari travelled to Yemen to negotiate with the victim’s family about paying blood money to save her daughter. Blood money refers to the compensation paid by an offender or his kin to the family of the victim. She was provided assistance by the Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council comprising NRI social workers based in Yemen, as per a report by The New Indian Express.
Responding to the development, MEA Official Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, "We are aware of the sentencing of Nimisha Priya in Yemen. We understand that the family of Priya is exploring relevant options. The government is extending all possible help in the matter."
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— Randhir Jaiswal (@MEAIndia) December 31, 2024The Supreme Court of Yemen last year rejected Nimisha's appeal against the death sentence following which the Delhi High Court urged the Centre to take a decision within a week on a request to travel to Yemen from the mother of the Kerala woman who is on death row.
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About Nimisha Priya: What all do we know?Nimisha Priya, a trained nurse from Kollengode in Palakkad district, left for Yemen in 2008 to help her daily wage labourer parents, says a Business Standard report.
Nimisha's husband and minor daughter returned to India in 2014 owing to financial reasons. In the same year, Yemen was gripped by civil war, and they were prohibited from going back as the country stopped issuing new visas.
Later in 2015, Nimisha got in touch with Mahdi to set up her clinic in as under Yemen's law, only nationals are allowed to set up clinics and business firms.
Before planning to start her own clinic, she worked in a few hospitals in the country. In 2017, she had a fallout with her local partner Talal Abdo Mahdi as he claimed alleged attempts to embezzle funds. However, Nimisha's family opposed the claim.
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As per The New Indian Express report, in 2015, Mahdi accompanied Nimisha Priya to Kerala when she came for a month-long holiday when he stole a wedding photograph of Nimisha, which he later manipulated to claim that he was married to her.
In a bid to reclaim her passport confiscated by the Yemeni national, she allegedly injected him with sedatives. However, an overdose of the sedative resulted in his death.
Back in 2018, she was apprehended while attempting to flee Yemen and was convicted in 2018. She was sentenced to death by a trial court in Sana’a in 2020. Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council had dismissed her appeal in November 2023 while keeping the option of paying blood money open.
Priya's mother travels to YemenPriya's mother moved the high court last year, seeking permission to travel to Yemen in spite of a travel ban for Indian nationals and negotiate the "blood money" to save her daughter.
Delhi High Court permitted the mother of the accused woman to travel to the West Asian country to negotiate about blood money with the victim’s family and save her daughter from the gallows.
Justice Subramonium Prasad directed the Centre to relax its 2017 notification, which barred Indian passport holders from travelling to Yemenmanila game, for the petitioner subject to her filing an affidavit that she will travel with another person to the restive nation for negotiating her daughter's release at her own risk and responsibility without any liability to the Government of India or the state government concerned.
