'Govt can't do any more in nurse execution case'
New Delhi, July 15 -- The Union government on Monday expressed its inability to intervene immediately to stop the impending execution of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who is scheduled to be hanged in Yemen on July 16 for the alleged murder of a Yemeni national in 2017.
Submitting before the Supreme Court, attorney general R Venkataramani said that every possible diplomatic and private channel has been exhausted to seek a reprieve for the 38-year-old , "nothing has worked so far," and the situation may now lie beyond the Indian government's control. "There is a point till which the Government of India can go. We have reached that..." said the AG, appearing before a bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta
The AG told the court that Indi...
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