Indian nurse Nimisha Priya to be executed in Yemen on July 16, says negotiator
New Delhi: Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen, is scheduled to be executed in Yemen on July 16. The victim, Talal Abdo Mehdi, was a local man with whom Nimisha had run a clinic, reported The Indian Express.
Quoting Samuel Jerome Baskaran, a social worker involved in talks with Yemeni officials and Talal’s family, the news report mentioned that he confirmed the execution date. “The public prosecutor has sent the letter of prosecution to the jail authorities. The execution is set for July 16. However, there is still hope. The Indian government can still take steps to save her,” he said.
He also mentioned that efforts are ongoing to get a pardon from Talal’s family. “We made an offer to the family during the last meeting, but they haven’t responded yet. I am leaving for Yemen today to continue the discussions,” Samuel added.
Nimisha’s mother, Prema Kumari, has been in Yemen for the past year trying to save her daughter. She works as a domestic worker in Kochi and has visited Nimisha in prison a few times since arriving in Sanaa.
Nimisha, a nurse from Kerala, had worked in Yemen for several years. With Talal’s help, she ran a clinic, but she later alleged that he abused her mentally, physically, and financially. In 2017, she was accused of killing him. A trial court in Yemen sentenced her to death, and the country’s Supreme Court upheld the verdict. Yemen’s President Rashad al-Alimi approved the death sentence last year. Since January, the final order has been with the public prosecutor.
Her execution now depends on whether Talal’s family agrees to forgive her. Last year, after the president approved the death penalty, India’s Ministry of External Affairs said it would offer all possible help to Nimisha and her family.
In December, Prema Kumari had approached the Delhi High Court to seek permission to travel to Yemen despite the ongoing conflict.
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PM can't stand up to Trump despite repeated threats due to US probe into Adani: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot stand up to US President Donald Trump despite his repeated threats due to "the ongoing US investigation into Adani".
The Leader of Opposition's remarks came after Trump said India has not been a good trading partner and announced that he will raise the tariffs on New Delhi "very substantially" over the next 24 hours because it is buying Russian oil.
In a post on X, Gandhi said, "India, please understand: The reason PM Modi cannot stand up to President Trump despite his repeated threats is the ongoing U.S. investigation into Adani."
"One threat is to expose the financial links between Modi, AA, and Russian oil deals. Modi's hands are tied," Gandhi alleged.
There was no immediate reaction from the government or the Adani Group on Gandhi's claims.
Billionaire Gautam Adani, 63, and seven other defendants, including his nephew Sagar, who is director at the group's renewable energy unit Adani Green Energy Ltd, have been accused of paying about USD 265 million in bribes to Indian government officials between approximately 2020 and 2024 to obtain lucrative solar energy supply contracts on terms that expected to yield USD 2 billion of profit over 20 years, according to an indictment unsealed in a New York court in November last year.
Earlier this week, Trump had said he will substantially raise US tariffs on India, accusing the country of buying massive amounts of Russian oil and selling it for big profits.
Hours later, India had mounted an unusually sharp counterattack on the US and the European Union for their "unjustified and unreasonable" targeting of New Delhi for its procurement of Russian crude oil.
Firmly rejecting the criticism, India pointed out the double standards in targeting it on the issue and said both the US and the EU are continuing their trade relations with Russia.
On Tuesday, Trump also said he doesn't know anything about the US imports of Russian uranium, fertilisers and chemicals.
Trump made the comments on Tuesday while responding to a question on India's statement on American imports of these commodities.
