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Only three days is remaining for the scheduled execution of Nimisha Priya an Indian nurse dealing with the death penalty in Yemen for the alleged assassinate of a Yemeni national. She will be able to be carried out on July 16. However, a social employee excited by talks with Yemeni officials and the victim Talal Abdo Mahdi’s family has conveyed that her family has equipped $1 million (roughly ₹8.6 crore) as ‘blood money’ to the victim’s relatives in a closing-ditch effort to build her life.

What's the case?

Priya, hailing from Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, changed into found guilty of murdering a Yemeni man moreover her industry partner in July 2017. In 2020, a Yemeni court handed her the death sentence, and the nation’s Supreme Judicial Council pushed aside her enchantment in November 2023. The 38-twelve months-ragged nurse is currently lodged in a penal advanced in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital metropolis that is below the preserve watch over of Iran-backed Houthis.

The Supreme Court docket on Thursday agreed to hear a plea searching out a direction to the Centre to make exercise of diplomatic channels to build the Indian nurse. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi listed the matter for hearing on July 14 after advocate Subhash Chandran KR acknowledged diplomatic channels wish to be explored at the earliest.

What the rules says?

Yemen’s upright map, based on Sharia rules, lets in the death penalty to be waived if the victim’s family accepts compensation, identified as diyah or blood money and chooses to forgive the offender. Such pardons can legally be granted up till the final moments earlier than the execution.