India, July 8 -- Indian officials are engaged in hectic efforts to prevent the execution of Nimisha Priya, an Indian on death row in Yemen for murdering a Yemeni national whose death sentence is set to be carried out on July 16, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Priya was arrested in July 2017 for murdering a Yemeni man who was her business partner. She was sentenced to death by a Yemeni court in 2020 and the Supreme Judicial Council dismissed Priya's appeal in November 2023. She is currently in a jail in Sana'a, which is under the control of Houthi rebels.

Noting that Priya was convicted of murder and a Yemeni court had handed her the death sentence, the people said on condition of anonymity that efforts were underway to...