India, July 18 -- The Centre on Friday informed the Supreme Court that efforts to secure a pardon for Nimisha Priya, the Indian nurse on death row in Yemen, should be undertaken solely by her family, saying the involvement of external organisations is unlikely to yield results.

The nurse, a native of Kollengode in Kerala's Palakkad district, was found guilty of murdering a Yemeni citizen in July 2017. In 2020, a Yemeni court sentenced her to death, and her appeal was subsequently rejected by the country's Supreme Judicial Council in November 2023.

Attorney general R Venkataramani advised that only Nimisha Priya's family, which has already appointed a "power of attorney," should handle talks with the victim's kin, and no outsider should ...