Delhi High Court on
Thursday granted one-week time to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to decide
on the representation of a woman seeking permission to travel to Yemen for
paying blood money to save her daughter from gallows in the foreign country
The single-judge
bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad passed the order on a petition filed by
Premakumari, the mother of nurse Nimisha Priya, seeking directions for
permitting her to travel to Yemen despite the travel ban.
Priya, a native of
Kollengode in Palakkad, was working as a nurse in Yemen. She has been sentenced
to death in Yemen for murder of Yemeni citizen Talal Abdo Mahdi.
The counsel
representing Premakumari had earlier apprised the High Court that the only way
to save her daughter from the gallows was to negotiate with the family of the
deceased by paying blood money. He pointed out that due to the travel ban, the
petitioner was unable to travel to Yemen.
The counsel representing the Union of India today submitted that as per
the gazette notification, the petitioners were supposed to apply to the
Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).