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Thursday, 28 March 2024 7.50 PM IST

Release of Nimisha Priya, ready for talks, says Yemeni’s family, seeks 50 million Yemen riyals as blood money

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SANA: There is a progress in the talks held in connection with the release of Nimisha Priya, a Malayalee nurse, awarded death sentence for killing a Yemeni national. The Yemen authorities have informed that the family of Talal Mahdi killed are ready to hold talks about the blood money.

Yemen officials met her in jail. The officials said that his family demanded blood money of Rs 50 million Yemen riyals and has asked to inform their decision before Ramzan. A fine of Rs 10 million Yemen riyals should also be paid as court expenses.

Meantime, Save Nimisha Priya Action Council and her family are awaiting centre’s permission to go to Yemen. Her mother Prema Kumari said that she will go to Yemen with Priya’s daughter to tender apology to Talal’s family and the people there. Apart from them, four from Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council have given application for centre’s approval.

They are leaving for Yemen as a last resort for the release of Priya, awaiting death sentence. In a letter to her mother, Nimisha said that it was an unintentional mistake and hoped that the family of the dead Talal and the Yemeni people would forgive her.

She is the wife Tomy Thomas, a native of Thodupuzha. She said that she killed Talal, when he came forward with monetary help to start her own clinic while working as a nurse, later confiscated her passport and abused her brutally.


The centre had clarified in the Delhi High Court that they cannot directly intervene in the talks for saving her life. However, the centre informed the court their assurance of providing adequate assistance to the talks held by the family and the organizations.

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