High Court seeks Centre's response on Kerala woman's plea to travel to Yemen to save daughter on death row

The Delhi High Court has asked for the Centre's response on a plea to allow the mother of a woman facing the death penalty in Yemen to travel to the country and negotiate with the victim's family. The woman, Nimisha Priya, has been sentenced to death for the murder of a Yemeni national. Justice Subramonium Prasad asked the Centre's counsel to file a status report within two weeks and listed the matter for further hearing on November 16. The Centre's counsel sought some time to take instructions and file the status report.