The execution of Indian nurse Nimisha Priya — who faces the gallows for murdering a Yemeni national — has been stayed, and nothing adverse is currently happening, the Supreme Court was informed on Thursday.

Currently lodged in a jail in Yemeni capital Sana, the 38-year-old Indian nurse from Palakkad in Kerala was convicted by the trial court of killing Yemeni national Talal Abdo Mahdi in 2017 by allegedly injecting him with sedatives to get her passport that the victim had kept in his possession. The decision was upheld by the country’s Supreme Judicial Council in November 2023.

Attorney General R Venkataramani told a Bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta that a new mediator has stepped into the matter.

As the Bench sought to know what happened to her, the counsel for p

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