NEW DELHI: Running against time to save the life of a nurse from Kerala, Nimisha Priya , whose death sentence is to be executed on July 16 in Yemen, government on Monday told Supreme Court that it was making all efforts to reach out to her but cannot do much because of the complex situation prevailing in the West Asian nation due to civil war.
Appearing before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, attorney general R Venkataramani told the court that government had done what it could but there is a standstill. The area where the conflict is going on is not diplomatically recognised, limiting intervention, he said.
"There's nothing much the government can do... It is not diplomatically recognised... There is a point till which government can go. We have reached that point. Yemen is not like any other part of the world. We didn't want to complicate the situation by going too public, we are trying to do as much as possible at a private level," the attorney general told court.
He also briefed the court that government was engaging with "some influential sheikh" who could try to mediate to resolve the problem.
"Real cause of concern is the stance of the girl... the manner in which the incident took place, and inspite thereof, if she loses her life, that is really sad," it observed.
Priya, 38, a nurse from Kerala's Palakkad district, was convicted of murdering a Yemeni national in 2017, who allegedly tortured and assaulted her.
To retrieve her documents, including her passport, from the Yemeni man's possession, Priya apparently tried to sedate him using ketamine, but unfortunately, an overdose caused his death.
At present, her family is trying to negotiate with the Yemeni man's family and offering "bloody money" so they would pardon her as per Sharia.
Appearing before a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, attorney general R Venkataramani told the court that government had done what it could but there is a standstill. The area where the conflict is going on is not diplomatically recognised, limiting intervention, he said.
"There's nothing much the government can do... It is not diplomatically recognised... There is a point till which government can go. We have reached that point. Yemen is not like any other part of the world. We didn't want to complicate the situation by going too public, we are trying to do as much as possible at a private level," the attorney general told court.
He also briefed the court that government was engaging with "some influential sheikh" who could try to mediate to resolve the problem.
"Real cause of concern is the stance of the girl... the manner in which the incident took place, and inspite thereof, if she loses her life, that is really sad," it observed.
Priya, 38, a nurse from Kerala's Palakkad district, was convicted of murdering a Yemeni national in 2017, who allegedly tortured and assaulted her.
To retrieve her documents, including her passport, from the Yemeni man's possession, Priya apparently tried to sedate him using ketamine, but unfortunately, an overdose caused his death.
At present, her family is trying to negotiate with the Yemeni man's family and offering "bloody money" so they would pardon her as per Sharia.
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