India Closely Following Kerala Nurse's Death Sentence Case in Yemen
While Nimisha was sentenced to death, the other person was given life imprisonment.
Thiruvananthapuram/ New Delhi: Sources have noted that they are closely following the matter on the Nimisha Priya case in Yemen, where she was convicted for the crime of murder in June 2018. According to sources, the matter continues to be closely followed.
Samuel Jerome, negotiator in the case on behalf of Nimisha’s mother Prema Kumari, stated that the Indian government had the option to intervene in the case to potentially save the nurse's life. Jerome explained that they had offered blood money to the family of Mahdi’s family, but there has been no response from them despite ongoing efforts to reach out.
The news about the upcoming execution was shared with the media by Jerome, who is the negotiator in the case on behalf of Nimisha's mother,.
Jerome stated that he received had a call from the jail authorities, who informed him that the execution order had been issued. The execution is set for July 16, and this information has also been officially communicated to Nimisha.
Nimisha's death sentence, handed down by a trial court, was upheld by the Supreme Court of Yemen. Prema Kumar. Nimisha's mother has been in Sanaa for several months and has visited her daughter in prison a couple of times during this period.
Nimisha, a native of Palakkad district of Kerala, got stuck in Yemen following a travel ban in the country due to the civil war in 2016. While her husband and daughter returned to India earlier in 2014, she could not join them at that time due to her job requirements. In the meantime, with the assistance of Mahdi, Nimisha set up a clinic in 2015.
Subsequently, serious differences surfaced between Nimisha and Mahdi and the nurse accused him of torturing and abusing her. With the Yemeni national taking away her passport, she got stranded in that country with no documents to travel back home.
In her statement made earlier, Nimisha had alleged that the Yemeni had posed as her husband before the local authorities following which she could not get any assistance from them.
Things took a turn for the worse on July 25, 2017, when she injected Mahdi with sedatives to take her passport back and flee from that place. Mahdi collapsed soon after. After realising that Mahdi had died, Nimisha, along with another person's help, disposed of his body.
The crime surfaced four days later. The Yemeni police took both Nimisha and her accomplice into custody. While Nimisha was sentenced to death, the other person was given life imprisonment.
