The Delhi high court on Tuesday directed Centre to allow the mother of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death in Yemen for murdering a Yemeni man, to travel to the West Asian country to save her daughter from the gallows.
The court asked Centre to relax the travel ban imposed on September 26, 2017, for Priya’s mother to visit the country along with Samuel Jerome, an Indian man working as the chief executive officer (CEO) of an airline in Sana’a, for negotiating with the victim’s family to pay blood money.
Priya was sentenced to death by a trial court in Sana’a in 2020 and her sentence was upheld by the appeal court in 2022. In November 2023, the Yemen Supreme Court dismissed her appeal but kept the option…