Nimisha Priya Case: The execution of Nimisha Priya, the Kerala nurse on a dying row in Yemen since 2020, was deferred on July 15, a day earlier than the scheduled date.
Distinguished Muslim cleric Kanthapuram AP Aboobacker Musliyar, initially named Sheikh Abubakr Ahmad, is being hailed for initiating the mediation efforts by his long-time good friend and Yemeni Sufi Islamic scholar Sheikh Habib Umar bin Hafiz.
However who prompted Abubakar to intervene?
Abubakr’s workplace issued a proper assertion on July 15 saying that the initiative started after the cleric was approached final Friday by Chandy Oommen, the Congress MLA from Puthuppally. Chandy sought the Grand Mufti‘s help attributable to his longstanding ties with main Sufi students in Yemen, the assertion stated.
“With a deep sense of nationwide duty and humanitarian concern, I made a decision to behave upon this request,” the Grand Mufti stated.
Chandy approached the Governor, too
Oommen had additionally approached a number of different influential figures, together with Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, for intervention.
“Past his function as a Governor, he acted as a fellow human being. His honest efforts won’t ever be forgotten by Kerala and its folks. I thank him from the underside of my coronary heart,” Oommen stated after the execution was halted, including that the Governor reached out to overseas governments, businessmen, and officers.
“He did no matter he may,” the Congress MLA stated after the execution was deferred.
Oommen, son of late Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy, met Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Wednesday to hunt pressing intervention within the case.
Oommen was accompanied by his mom, Mariyamma Oommen, through the assembly at Raj Bhavan. The household has taken up the problem as a matter of ethical duty, recalling that the late Oommen Chandy had personally advocated for Nimisha Priya’s launch in his last days.
“Appa (father) gave this problem precedence even amid his personal well being struggles. He spoke to everybody who visited him about intervening in Nimisha’s case,” Chandy Oommen stated.
“We imagine this is likely one of the obligations he entrusted to us. Now, with the date of execution approaching, we can’t stay silent,” he stated in a Fb put up.
Nimisha Priya, 38, a nurse from Palakkad district in Kerala, was convicted of murdering her Yemeni enterprise accomplice in 2017. She was sentenced to dying in 2020, and her last attraction was rejected in 2023. She is presently imprisoned in a jail in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen.
Who’s Chandy Oommen?
Chandy Oommen, 39, is an Indian lawyer, lecturer, and Congress MLA who practices legislation on the Supreme Courtroom of India since 2016. He’s the incumbent Member of the Kerala Legislative Meeting representing the Puthuppally Meeting constituency since 2023.
Chandy was the Chairman of the Nationwide Outreach Cell of the Indian Youth Congress. On September 9, 2024, the Authorities of India appointed Oommen because the Empanelled Advocate to signify the Nationwide Highways Authority of India in Courts in Kerala.
Household and Training
Chandy Oommen was born on March 1 1986 in Puthuppally, Kottayam district of Kerala, India as the one son of former chief minister Oommen Chandy and Mariamma Oommen.
Chandy accomplished his education at St Thomas Residential Faculty, Thiruvananthapuram, and Loyola Faculty, Thiruvananthapuram. He then went to Mar Ivanios Faculty, Thiruvananthapuram, for a bachelor’s diploma in economics. He then pursued his bachelor’s ( BA Hons) and grasp’s (MA) levels in historical past at St. Stephen’s Faculty, Delhi, the place he was the president of the school college students’ union from 2006 to 2007.
After finishing his post-graduation, he went on to earn an LLB from Delhi College and an LLM in criminology from the Nationwide Legislation College, Delhi. Moreover, he accomplished a summer time course on the London Faculty of Economics. Subsequently, he obtained a further LLM in constitutional legislation from Christ College, Bengaluru in 2016.
Retained father’s seat
With a deep sense of nationwide duty and humanitarian concern, I made a decision to behave upon this request.
Chandy’s father, Oommen Chandy, represented the Puthuppally Meeting constituency consecutively for 53 years. Puthuppally by-election was necessitated by the dying of his father in July 2023.
Chandy was chosen because the candidate of the Congress-led United Democratic Entrance (UDF). Chandy received the by-poll with a document margin of 37,719 votes in opposition to Jaick C Thomas of the Left Democratic Front (LDF). It was the very best margin for any candidate within the historical past of the Puthuppally meeting election.
