There is less than two days left for Indian nurse Nimisha who was hanged in Yemen. Many efforts are being made to save them, in which a proposal has been made to give blood money to the family. Nimisha Priya, a 38 -year -old nurse from Palakkad district of Kerala, was convicted of killing her Yemeni business partner in 2017.
Nimisha was sentenced to death in 2020 and her final appeal was rejected in 2023. They will be hanged on 16 June. There are many such Indians who have been sentenced to death abroad. Regarding this, Mea was questioned that how many Indians are there, who are lodged in jails of Gulf countries and have been sentenced to death.
Indians abroad death penalty
Giving information, the Ministry of External Affairs said that the number of Indian citizens sentenced to death by foreign courts is 54. Which includes Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Most of the UAE, 29 Indians have been sentenced to death, followed by 12 Indians in Saudi, 3 in Kuwait and one in Qatar has been sentenced to death.
Will Nimisha stop hanging?
Efforts to stop the hanging of Nimisha are continuing. Nimisha’s family has appealed to the Supreme Court to approve blood money, so that Nimisha’s sentence should be forgiven by paying money to the victim’s family. For this, Nimisha’s family has proposed $ 1 million.
At the same time, CM Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala wrote a letter to PM Modi urging him to immediately intervene to save the life of Kerala nurse Nimisha. However, efforts are on to rescue through all aspects in the Nimisha case from the Ministry of External Affairs.
