She was arrested in 2018 in an attempt to escape Yemen after the incident, and she was later convicted of murder. In Nov 2023, Yemen’s Supreme Judicial Council upheld the death sentence. President Rashad al-Alimi also gave formal approval for her execution in 2023.

The CBI team is returning to India with the fugitive. Monika is being produced before the concerned court, and she will now face the trial, it said.

Rahul Gandhi had flown down to join the state-wide protests which are a part of the nationwide ‘chakka jam’ called by trade unions against the four new labour codes, to which in Bihar has been added the issue of the electoral roll revision.