'We can do no more to save Nimisha Priya'

ATTORNEY GENERAL TELLS TOP COURT THAT ALL OPTIONS ARE EXHAUSTED

- BY STEPHEN N. R.

India's top legal officer delivered a grim message to the Supreme Court yesterday — there is nothing more the Indian government can do to prevent the execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who faces the death penalty in Yemen tomorrow.

"It is unfortunate ... but there is a point till which we can go. We have reached it," Attorney General R. Venkataramani told a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta, responding to an urgent plea filed by activists seeking the government's direct intervention, according to Indian media.

Priya was convicted for the 2017 death of her Yemeni business partner, Talal Abdo Mehdi, who she accused of harassing her, stealing money and withholding her passport. She allegedly injected him with sedatives in a desperate attempt to retrieve her passport and escape the country. He died in the process.