India, July 14 -- "There is a point till which the Government of India can go. We have reached that," the Indian government's lawyer told the Supreme Court on Monday, two days ahead of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya's scheduled execution in Yemen on July 16 for the murder of a local businessman in 2017.

Attorney General R Venkataramani told the SC that every channel has been exhausted to seek reprieve for the 38-year-old nurse from Palakkad. "Nothing has worked so far," and the situation may now lie beyond the Indian government's control. The SC, hearing a plea filed by a citizens' group called Save Nimisha Priya International Action Council, had sought the government's response.

The issue is complicated by the fact that India does not have...