The petitioner mother Premakumari's counsel submitted before a single judge bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad that there were certain Indians in Yemen and the Indian government was allowing some of them who work there to travel to the country.
Last month, acting on a petition by Priya’s mother Prema Kumari, the Delhi High Court had directed the Ministry to consider her travel request within a week.
The Supreme Court of Yemen on November 13 rejected the mercy plea of Nimisha Priya, the Indian nurse sentenced to death for the murder of a Yemeni national, according to reports. The Centre confirmed this during a hearing at the Delhi High Court on Friday.