Overview

• Save Nimisha Priya Action Council has filed a petition urging New Delhi to engage diplomatic channels to halt her hanging in Sana’a
• The plea highlights Yemen’s Sharia provision allowing a murder sentence to be overturned if the victim’s family accepts diyah, or blood money
• Priya’s family has offered $1 million in diyah to the victim’s heirs, but their decision on a pardon remains pending
• The Ministry of External Affairs has pledged all possible support despite lacking formal relations with the Houthi authorities controlling Sana’a
• Congress leader K C Venugopal and other lawmakers have written to Prime Minister Modi calling for urgent intervention to secure a pardon