Nimisha Priya Was Set To Be Executed Today In Yemen—What Stopped It? | India News
The Kerala -based nurse Nimisha, who faced execution in Yemen on charges of murder, received a temporary return after last -minute efforts by leading religious leaders in India and Yemen.
A 37 -year -old Indian citizen Nimisha Priya was planned to be executed on Wednesday. However, the execution was postponed after the intervention of Sheikh Abubakr Ahmed Kanthapuram, the great mufti of India, and reached Yemen academics and religious leaders to object to human reasons.
Speaking with the moment, the great mufti, Yemen scholars under Islamic law, a kind of ruthless diamond (compensation), he said.
“In Islam, instead of killing, there is a practice of giving dia (compensation).
In the early hours of Monday, the Union Government was submitted to the case in the Supreme Court, while the Indian Chief Public Prosecutor (AGI) said that the Indian government has made all kinds of efforts to help Priin.
In addition, the court reported that the negotiations continued with the Yemeni officials, including the discussion of Priya’s case, to ensure that the execution order was suspended until negotiations were held. The court will continue to hear the case on 18 July.
In 2017, Priya is currently involved in a prison in Yemen, faced with a death sentence for the allegation of former business partner Talal Abdo Mahdi.
Nimisha Priya moved to Yemen in 2008 to support her family, and at the beginning, she worked as a nurse before opening her own clinic.
In 2017, after a dispute with the business partner Mahdi, it was claimed that he had applied a calming to him to get his seized passport.
The sedatives became deadly. He was arrested while trying to escape from the country and was convicted of murder in 2018.
He was sentenced to death in 2020 and was approved by the High Judicial Council of Yemen in November 2023.
However, in accordance with Yemen’s Sharia law, the court had allowed a mamicalness through a blood money regulation (diaat). Previously, Priya’s family, as a compensation in exchange for forgiveness, the victim’s family will be willing to pay about 8.6 crore reportedly said.
(With Ians entrances)
