Nimisha Priya will be executed in two days, plea in SC seeking media gag order

NEW DELHI: A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking to gag media from reporting news in the release of Malayali nurse Nimisha Priya, jailed in Yemeni, for the next three days. Public activist and lawyer K A Paul filed the plea in the Supreme Court today before a bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath.

K A Paul informed the court that he has got information that Nimisha Priya will be executed on August 24th or 25th. Paul clarified that he approached the court on her request. The plea mentioned three demands. The plea demands a ban on media from reporting news about her for three days, and a temporary suspension of talks on this issue between Nimisha Priya Action Council's legal advisor Subhash Chandran and Kanthapuram A P Aboobacker Musliyar.

The Supreme Court, which considered the plea, sent a notice to the Attorney General. The court informed to hear the case on August 25th and pass the order on the same day. Paul said that he had been working in Yemen for years. KA Paul had earlier collected money for her release. This was blocked by the Ministry of External Affairs.

On July 25, 2017, Nimisha Priya, who ws working as a nurse in Yemen, killed Talal Abdo Mahadi, a Yemeni citizen who came to her promising to help her start her own clinic. He confiscated her passport and tortured her brutally and in order to escape from his hands, she killed him. She killed Mahadi by giving him overdose of drugs. She later hid the body in the water tank of the house.