‘Nothing much India can do’, govt tells SC ahead of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya’s Yemen execution date

On Monday, the government informed the Supreme Court that it can do “nothing much” to prevent the execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya in Yemen.

“There’s nothing much government can do…looking at sensitivity of Yemen…it’s not diplomatically recognized,” AG Venkataramani, the government’s counsel, was quoted as saying by Live Law.

However, the government did say it was trying its best to save Nimisha through private channels, but there was only so far it could go.

“There’s a point till which government of India can go. We have reached that. Yemen is not like any other part of the world. We didn’t want to complicate situation by going public, we are trying at private level,” the counsel told the top court.

Nimisha Priya, a resident of Palakkad district in Kerala, faces death row in Yemen with her execution date set for July 16.