Release of Nimisha Priya: Mediatory team to visit Yemen soon, meet chaired by S Jaisankar and V Muraleedharan

NEW DELHI: A team of mediators will soon leave for Yemen for the release of Malayalee nurse Nimisha Priya, undergoing death sentence in the murder of Yemeni national. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed that they would take immediate action to avoid death penalty.

A meet convened for the talks was chaired by Foreign Affairs Minister S Jaisankar and Minister of State V Muraleedharan. The embassy has been directed to coordinate the proceedings for blood money.

The Yemen authorities had 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 (nearly Rs 1.5 crore) and has asked to inform their decision before Ramzan. A fine of Rs 10 million Yemen riyals should also be paid as court expenses.

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 and later confiscated her passport and abused her brutally.