Kerala-based nurse Nimisha Priya, who was dealing with execution in Yemen on costs of homicide, has acquired a short lived reprieve after last-minute efforts by distinguished spiritual leaders in India and Yemen.
Nimisha Priya, a 37-year-old Indian nationwide, was scheduled to be executed on Wednesday. Nonetheless, the execution was postponed following the intervention of Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad Kanthapuram, the Grand Mufti of India, who reached out to Yemeni students and non secular leaders to enchantment on humanitarian grounds.
Chatting with ANI, the Grand Mufti stated he urged Yemeni students to contemplate accepting diyaat (compensation), a type of clemency permissible underneath Islamic legislation.
“In Islam, as a substitute of killing, there may be additionally a follow of giving Diya (compensation). I requested them to just accept Diyaat because the get together is prepared right here for it. There are talks happening about whether or not my request needs to be accepted. The date of execution was tomorrow, however it has now been postponed for some days,” the Grand Mufti advised ANI.
Earlier on Monday, whereas giving the Union Authorities’s submission on the case within the Supreme Courtroom, the Legal professional Basic of India (AGI) said that the Indian authorities is making each attainable effort to assist Priya.
He additional knowledgeable the Courtroom that talks are ongoing with Yemeni authorities, together with the general public prosecutor dealing with Priya’s case, to safe a suspension of the execution order till negotiations might be pursued. The court docket will proceed to listen to the case on July 18.
Priya is at the moment lodged in a jail in Yemen, dealing with the dying penalty for the alleged homicide of her former enterprise companion, Talal Abdo Mehdi, in 2017.
Nimisha Priya moved to Yemen in 2008 to assist her household and initially labored as a nurse earlier than opening her personal clinic.
In 2017, following a dispute with Mehdi — her enterprise companion — she allegedly administered sedatives to him in a bid to retrieve her confiscated passport.
The sedatives proved deadly. She was arrested whereas trying to flee the nation and was convicted of homicide in 2018.
A dying sentence was handed down in 2020 and upheld by Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council in November 2023.
Nonetheless, underneath Yemen’s Sharia legislation, the court docket had allowed a provision for clemency via a blood cash association (diyaat). It was earlier reported that Priya’s household had expressed willingness to pay round ₹8.6 crore to the sufferer’s household as compensation in change for forgiveness.
(With IANS Inputs)