Yemeni President Rashad al-Alimi upholds death sentence of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya This punishment was accepted this month and the punishment is to be executed this month itself.
The trial court had already punished death sentence to Nimisha Priya in 2020Later in November 2023, Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council also upheld the death sentence
India’s response
The Ministry of External Affairs of the Government of India said that We know about Nimisha Priya’s punishment Every possible help is being provided to his family members by the government The Ministry of External Affairs is continuously talking to the government of Yemen on its behalf.Whatever provisions will be there regarding Nimisha’s punishment, they should be implemented in India At this time, India should use the power of its diplomacy so that it can get its point across
who is nimisha priya
Nimisha Priya is a nurse from the Indian state of Kerala. She studied in India and received training in the nursing field After this he went to Yemen in 2008 and worked in a hospital for many years She was living with her husband and child in Yemen but had to return to India due to financial reasons.When he tried to leave again, civil war broke out in Yemen
what is the reason for the punishment
When the civil war in Yemen calmed down, new business laws came into force Nimisha had planned to start her own business in 2015 but according to the new rule it was necessary to have Yemen citizen for medical business, then she had to go there Talal Abdo Mehdi and made him his business partner
When Nimisha came to India on a month’s leave, she brought Talal Abdo along with her He had stolen Nimisha’s wedding photo and later he tried to show that Nimisha was his wife by altering the photo Later he also took away her money and jewellery
Nimisha alleged that Mehdi had been harassing her and her family for years and had also stolen Nimisha’s passport. When Nimisha complained about this to the police, Nimisha herself was arrested for 6 days When Nimisha was released from jail, her problems increased further Now Mehdi started troubling her even more.Then he sought help from the jail warden situated near his clinic.He suggested that he should give him some intoxicating dose and make him unconscious and take away his passport. But Mehdi was addicted to drugs, so he did not faint on a low dose, so Nimisha gave him a higher dose, which caused him to die.
