Goa, July 17 -- In a significant humanitarian and diplomatic intervention, a prominent Indian Muslim cleric has helped delay the execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian nurse sentenced to death in Yemen. Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad, the Grand Mufti of India, played a key role by reaching out to influential Yemeni scholar Sheikh Umar bin Hafiz, urging him to mediate with the family of the Yemeni man Priya was convicted of killing.

Nimisha Priya, originally from Kerala, was found guilty of killing Talal Abdol Mehdi in Yemen, though her legal team maintains the act was unintentional and took place under extreme abuse and duress. Following the Grand Mufti's appeal, Sheikh Umar dispatched his students to initiate dialogue with the victim's family. Aft...