India, July 14 -- The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that there's "nothing much" it can do to stop Kerala-based nurse Nimisha Priya's execution 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.

The remarks came during a hearing of a plea seeking government intervention in stopping the execution, planned for July 16.

While the government did say it was trying its best to save Nimisha through private channels, it said 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. ...