A court in Yemen upheld the death sentence of Nimisha Priya, a Keralite nurse who murdered a Yemeni national in 2014.
Priya, hailing from Palakkad district in the state, was sentenced to death for allegedly murdering Talal Abdu Mahdi and concealing the body. Another nurse, who helped her with the crime, was sentenced to imprisonment for life, reports The News Minute.
Priya had alleged that Mahdi faked a certificate to convince several people that they were married. Later, she was forced into a marriage as per religious norms, she had claimed in a letter that she wrote to the Kerala government earlier.
Priya was married to a Keralite man in 2011 and the two had come to Yemen. However, her husband returned to Kerala later with their child.
She had said she was running a clinic along with Mahdi, which he helped her set up. In her letter, she said he had cheated her of lakhs of rupees, seized her passport preventing her from leaving the country. She said he was also torturing her, and threatened with forcible unnatural sex, prompting her to resort to the crime.
She said she had sought the help of Mahdi in 2014 to open a clinic while she was working as a nurse. Though he helped, he used to pocket all the revenue from its operations, the letter said.
She wrote this letter in 2018, before a court sentenced her to death.
(With inputs from Onmanorama)