Monica prays for asylum in Portugal

"I will certainly be tortured. Life does not exist for me in India. People want to kill me, they have carried out protests demanding that I be hung," she told the weekly newspaper Expresso.

Bedi was arrested in Lisbon in September 2002 along with her companion Abu Salem, one of India's most wanted men who is accused of masterminding a series of bombings that ripped through Bombay's commercial district in March 1993 killing more than 250 people.