New Delhi: The Supreme Court has been informed that there is “no immediate threat" to Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who is on death row in Yemen for murder. The apex court then listed the matter after eight weeks.
The information was provided to the Supreme Court by the counsel representing ‘Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council’, a panel extending legal support to the Kerala-based nurse.
The counsel for the petitioner organization, Save Nimisha Priya, requested a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta to adjourn the matter.
“Negotiations are going on. As of now, there is no immediate threat. Kindly adjourn it by four weeks. Hopefully, everything will be over by that time," the counsel was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
Priya was convicted in 2017, sentenced to death in 2020, and her final appeal was rejected in 2023. She is imprisoned in a jail in the Yemeni capital Sana’a. According to Yemeni court documents, Priya allegedly drugged and murdered Talal Abdo Mahdi in July 2017.
