The Indian government has expressed its limitations to prevent the execution of Nimisha Priya, a Keralite nurse sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of her business partner. On the possibility of blood money, he said, "Blood money is a private negotiation," and stressed that the government could not be asked to act beyond its defined limits.
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