‘What else do you want …’, Supreme Court asked the petitioner seeking to stop people from making public statements in Nimisha Priya case
The Supreme Court refused to hear a petition on a request on a request on Monday (August 25, 2025) to hearing a request on a request on a request to give instructions to individuals, organizations and others in the case of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who is facing a death sentence in Yemen.
A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta K.K. A. Told Paul that Attorney General R Venkataramani has assured that only the government will make a statement on this matter, no one else.
The bench asked, ‘What do you want? Do you want anyone to come in front and say anything to the media? The Attorney General has said that the Government of India will ensure that no other media makes comments. What else do you want? ‘
Venkataramani said that this is a very sensitive matter and he will ensure that there is no media briefing until it is over. The case was dismissed as the petition withdrew. Of. A. Paul had said that Nimisha Priya has urged legal intervention to impose a complete ban on the media in the case.
He said that talks are going on in the case at this time and some people are making wrong statements. The petition requested the Center to take immediate, coordinated diplomatic measures with Yemen to convert the death penalty into life imprisonment.
The Supreme Court was told on 14 August that Indian nurse Nimisha Priya, who was sentenced to death on the charge of murder in Yemen, has no immediate threat. The court was at that time hearing a separate petition in which the Center has been requested to use diplomatic mediums to save the nurse of Palakkad in Kerala. Nimisha Priya was convicted of killing her Yemeni businessman in 2017.
The Supreme Court was informed last month that the hanging of Priya to be held on 16 July has been banned. The Center informed the Supreme Court on 18 July that the efforts are on and the government is making every effort to ensure that Priya is safe.
Nimisha Priya was convicted in 2017, sentenced to death in 2020 and her final appeal was rejected in 2023. He is imprisoned in a jail in Sana, the capital of Yemen.
