NEW DELHI: The Delhi high court on Tuesday permitted the mother of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who is on death row in Yemen, to travel to the country along with another individual working there at her own risk and without any liability of the Centre or the state government concerned.
Hearing a plea by Nimisha’s mother Premakumarisingle, a single-judge bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre to relax its travel advisory notification of September 2017, barring Indians from travelling to Yemen.Clause 3 of the notification gives power to the government to give relaxation to an individual for specific and essential reasons for a limited period, the court noted., to negotiate for payment of blood money to secure her daughter’s freedom.
Kerala native Nimisha was sentenced to death for murder of one Talal Abdo Mahdi, who used to abuse and torture her, in 2017. She injected him with sedatives to retrieve her passport that was in his possession. With an appellate court in Yemen dismissing Nimisha’s appeal against capital punishment in 2022, her mother has been pleading to be allowed to visit the country so that she could negotiate with Mahdi’s family to pay blood money.
Justice Prasad asked the nurse’s mother to file an affidavit stating the date of her travel and the date of return to India, noting that affidavits had been filed by two individuals who were willing to accompany the petitioner to Yemen.
Hearing a plea by Nimisha’s mother Premakumarisingle, a single-judge bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre to relax its travel advisory notification of September 2017, barring Indians from travelling to Yemen.Clause 3 of the notification gives power to the government to give relaxation to an individual for specific and essential reasons for a limited period, the court noted., to negotiate for payment of blood money to secure her daughter’s freedom.
Kerala native Nimisha was sentenced to death for murder of one Talal Abdo Mahdi, who used to abuse and torture her, in 2017. She injected him with sedatives to retrieve her passport that was in his possession. With an appellate court in Yemen dismissing Nimisha’s appeal against capital punishment in 2022, her mother has been pleading to be allowed to visit the country so that she could negotiate with Mahdi’s family to pay blood money.
Justice Prasad asked the nurse’s mother to file an affidavit stating the date of her travel and the date of return to India, noting that affidavits had been filed by two individuals who were willing to accompany the petitioner to Yemen.