Kerala nurse on death row: Delhi High Court allows Nimisha Priya's family to go to Yemen to pay blood money

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the Central government to relax its conditions and allow the mother of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya to travel to Yemen and seek her release by paying ‘blood money’..Nimisha Priya is on death row for the murder of a Yemeni national.Justice Subramonium Prasad passed the order today directing the Central government to relax its notification regarding travel to Yemen in favour of the petitioner.The Bench, however, said that Priya’s mother Prema Kumari will travel to Yemen at her own risk without any liability to the Indian government or any State government.Justice Prasad asked Prema Kumari to file an affidavit stating the same and to inform the Court about the date of her travel as well as the day she will return.“It is an extraordinary circumstance. A mother is trying to save her child,” the Court remarked..Nimisha Priya’s family approached the High Court against the Centre’s refusal to grant them permission to travel to Yemen.The Central government argued that it does not want the blood money negotiation of the family of Nimisha Priya and that because there are no diplomatic relations between India and Yemen, it would be difficult to ensure the family's safety if allowed to travel.Nimisha Priya was working as a nurse in Yemen. She was sentenced to death for murder of a Yemeni citizen, Talal Abdo Mahdi. Her appeal against the conviction was also rejected by the Yemeni Supreme Court.In her plea, the nurse's mother has said that the only way to save her daughter from the gallows would b e to negotiate with the family of the deceased by paying blood money..Kerala nurse on death row: Delhi High Court asks Centre whether Nimisha Priya's family can be allowed to go to Yemen to pay blood money