India's helplessness over death row prisoner in Yemen

The federal government has informed the Supreme Court that it was helpless on the plea to save an Indian nurse on death row in war-torn Yemen.

- Ashraf Padanna

In 2017, a court sentenced Nimisha Priya to death for the murder of Talal Abdo Mahdi, her former business partner, whose dismembered body was found in a water tank.

According to campaigners who are actively working to secure her release, she is scheduled to face execution on Wednesday.

"There's a point till which the Government of India can go. We have reached that point,” Attorney General R Venkataramani told the top court on Monday.

A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was considering the Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council's plea seeking intervention to save the Keralite nurse.