India, March 4 -- Shahzadi Khan, 33, lured to Abu Dhabi in 2021 on a tourist visa on the promise of a better life and treatment for disfiguring burn injuries she received years ago, trafficked as a bonded worker to a couple, accused of killing their infant child in 2022, and sentenced to death in July 2023, was executed on February 15 this year.

Details of her death were provided by the Union ministry of external affairs to the Delhi high court, which was hearing a plea by Khan's father Shabbir Khan seeking directions to the Centre and the embassy to ascertain his daughter's legal status.

Khan and her father consistently maintained her innocence, claiming that the child under her care was administered a vaccine earlier on the day of its...