New Delhi: Laila Ali, wife of jailed Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed, has urged Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to help her in getting her husband out of prison.

Laila Ali said that India, besides condemning the current state of affairs, should also do more to free her husband.

Economic Times quoted Laila saying that the trail that led to her husband's imprisonment a 'total sham' and said that Nasheed is looking at India to 'intervene'.

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"I do not know what it will take PM Modi to do it but my wish is that India helps in ensuring that my husband is freed unconditionally and that representative democracy is restored. How India does it is for the PM to decide," she told Economic Times.

She also expressed fears that plans are afoot to murder the former President in custody.

"I fear for his life in prison. This week I got some information from close friends that people in the cabinet as well as some retired and serving armed forces personnel are plotting to kill him in jail and make it look like he committed suicide," she added.

India has voiced 'deep concern' over the developments in the Maldives after former president Mohamed Nasheed was sentenced to 13-year imprisonment by a criminal court under anti-terror laws.

Nasheed, a respected human rights and environment campaigner, was elected president in the Maldives' first free polls after the end of 30-year autocratic rule of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in 2008.

Nasheed was charged with 'unlawful arrest' of Judge Abdulla Mohamed in April 2013 and while the charges were dropped later, he has now again been prosecuted for the same alleged offence under terrorism charges.