Goa, July 15 -- The Indian government has informed the Supreme Court that it has exhausted all possible diplomatic and legal channels to secure clemency for Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who is scheduled to be executed in Yemen on July 16 for the 2017 murder of a Yemeni businessman.

"There is a point till which the Government of India can go. We have reached that," Attorney General R Venkataramani told the bench on Monday, while responding to a plea filed by the Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council. The citizens' group is seeking government intervention to delay or halt the execution.

The case has been further complicated by the fact that India does not have formal diplomatic ties with the Houthi rebel group, which controls the...