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Nimisha Priya death sentence: Doubts emerge over Kerala nurse getting relief; 'inaccurate,' say MEA sources
Only blood money can save Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse on death row in Yemen. Image courtesy: Save Nimisha Priya Action council/CNN
Sources in India's Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) have refuted reports that claimed the death sentence of Nimisha Priya, the Indian nurse facing murder charges in Yemen, has been overturned.
The sources on Tuesday (July 29) called these reports 'inaccurate'.
The 37-year-old nurse from Kerala was initially scheduled to be executed on July 16 for killing her business partner in Yemen, but it was postponed.
Earlier on Monday, the office of the 'Grand Mufti of India", Kanthapuram AP Abubakar Musliyar, released a statement that Nimisha's death sentence had been overturned by Yemeni authorities.
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