Senior Advocate Ragenth Basant, appearing for Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council, sought permission to send a delegation to try and convince the family of the victim to pardon her.

The Centre Friday informed the Supreme Court that only the family of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse sentenced to death in Yemen for murder, 

should be involved in the discussions with that of the victim to secure pardon, and an intervention by any other organisation would unlikely be fruitful.

Attorney General R Venkataramani informed a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta as Senior Advocate Ragenth Basant, appearing for 

Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council, sought permission to send a delegation to try and convince the family of the victim to pardon her.

The bench said in its order, “Petitioner wishes to make some representation to the government, which they are free to move. 

And once that representation is made, the government would consider it on its own merits.”

Basant thanked the Government and others involved for their efforts to defer the death sentence of Nimisha Priya. “So that’s a first step. 

Source: Indianexpress