Nimisha Priya, a native of Kollenkode in Palakkad district, was sentenced to death in Yemen for allegedly murdering her Yemeni husband and concealing the body in a water tank above their house in Al Deydh. Kochi: Keralite nurse Nimisha Priya, who has been sentenced to death for allegedly murdering a Yemeni national, has got temporary relief.
Nimisha Priya has been shifted from the Al Bayda jail that houses death row prisoners to a jail in Yemen's capital Sana'a. Legal proceedings too have commenced following the intervention of the ministry of external affairs.
Now, she can move a court and a lawyer has been appointed by the Indian embassy. It was after Manorama News reported her story that the Centre and state governments and social workers got involved in the case.
Nimisha Priya, a native of Kollenkode in Palakkad district, was sentenced to death in Yemen for allegedly murdering her Yemeni husband and concealing the body in a water tank above their house in Al Deydh.
Nimisha Priya in her letter to Manorama News said that she needed help since she could lose her life anytime. In the letter, she said that she was running a clinic along with her husband Talal Abdu Mahdi. Talal cheated her of lakhs of rupees, seized her passport preventing her from leaving the country and was threatened with forcible unnatural sex, the letter said.
The letter also said that Nimisha Priya was threatened with a gun several times. The 12-page letter contains the story of her life from the moment she landed in Yemen until she was jailed. She sought the help of Talal in 2014 while she was working as a nurse to open a clinic on her own.
Nimisha Priya alleged that Talal faked their marriage certificate to convince several people that they were married. Later, she was forced into a marriage as per religious norms.
Though he helped her start a clinic, he used to pocket all the revenue from its operations, the letter said. It also said that Talal stole and sold her gold ornaments.
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