SC rejects petition for mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug
See photoNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has rejected Pinki Virani's plea for mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug.
The court rejected the case and laid guidelines for mercy killing in extreme cases of terminally ill patients.
Aruna Shanbaug, is lying in a "persistent vegetative state" in Mumbai's KEM Hospital for over 37 years after a brutal sexual assault.
The apex court laid down guidelines for passive euthanasia like stopping life support system.
It said such a plea made by patients or relatives must be examined by expert doctors and placed before the concerned high court, which will take the final decision.
This SC guideline would hold till Parliament enacts a law on euthanasia.
On last Wednesday, the Supreme Court had reserved its judgment on her euthanasia plea.
The apex court heard the plea of activist Pinki Virani that feeding of the nurse should be stopped immediately.
The petition said that Aruna cannot see or speak properly and as such keeping her alive violates her right to live with dignity.
Aruna Shanbhag, a nurse from Haldipur, Shimoga, Karnataka, was assaulted by a Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital in 1973.
Walmiki was motivated partly by resentment for being ordered about and castigated by Shanbaug. On the night of November 27, 1973 he attacked her, while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement for leaving her shift.
He choked her with a dog chain and sodomized her. The asphyxiation during the course of the assault cut off oxygen supply to her brain resulting in brain stem contusion injury and cervical cord injury as well as leaving her cortically blind.
The court rejected the case and laid guidelines for mercy killing in extreme cases of terminally ill patients.
Aruna Shanbaug, is lying in a "persistent vegetative state" in Mumbai's KEM Hospital for over 37 years after a brutal sexual assault.
The apex court laid down guidelines for passive euthanasia like stopping life support system.
It said such a plea made by patients or relatives must be examined by expert doctors and placed before the concerned high court, which will take the final decision.
This SC guideline would hold till Parliament enacts a law on euthanasia.
On last Wednesday, the Supreme Court had reserved its judgment on her euthanasia plea.
The apex court heard the plea of activist Pinki Virani that feeding of the nurse should be stopped immediately.
The petition said that Aruna cannot see or speak properly and as such keeping her alive violates her right to live with dignity.
Aruna Shanbhag, a nurse from Haldipur, Shimoga, Karnataka, was assaulted by a Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital in 1973.
Walmiki was motivated partly by resentment for being ordered about and castigated by Shanbaug. On the night of November 27, 1973 he attacked her, while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement for leaving her shift.
He choked her with a dog chain and sodomized her. The asphyxiation during the course of the assault cut off oxygen supply to her brain resulting in brain stem contusion injury and cervical cord injury as well as leaving her cortically blind.
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Haider Ajaz
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