New twist in Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya’s execution in Yemen, her counsel makes big statement

Nimisha Priya execution: The execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse on demise row in Yemen, has been postponed by Yemeni authorities, sources acknowledged on Tuesday. The execution was scheduled for Wednesday. The authorities has been a success in convincing the sufferer’s household to postpone the execution no longer lower than for the next day to come, it has emerged. However it without a doubt does no longer mean Priya would be launched or sent aid to India.

Priya, hailing from Kollengode in Kerala’s Palakkad district, has been stumbled on responsible of murdering a Yemeni citizen in July, 2017. It has been learnt that the native authorities in Yemen enjoy postponed the execution scheduled for July 16, the sources acknowledged.

What's the case?

Priya was stumbled on responsible of murdering a Yemeni man moreover her swap associate in July 2017. In 2020, a Yemeni court docket handed her the demise sentence, and the nation’s Supreme Judicial Council brushed off her allure in November 2023. The 38-one year-dilapidated nurse is at this time lodged in a penal complicated in Sana’a, the Yemeni capital metropolis that is underneath the administration of Iran-backed Houthis.

The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea searching for a direction to the Centre to utilize diplomatic channels to save the Indian nurse. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Joymalya Bagchi listed the matter for listening to on July 14 after recommend Subhash Chandran KR acknowledged diplomatic channels deserve to be explored at the earliest.

What the legislation says?

Yemen’s factual gadget, in line with Sharia legislation, lets in the demise penalty to be waived if the sufferer’s household accepts compensation, is named diyah or blood money and chooses to forgive the offender. Such pardons can legally be granted up except the last moments earlier than the execution.