Should Euthanasia and 'Assisted Suicide' be legal? What's your opinion on Aruna Shaunbag case?
SC verdict today: On 24th January 2011, the Supreme Court of India responded to the plea for Euthanasia filed by Aruna's friend journalist Pinki Virani, by setting up a medical panel to examine her. However, it turned down the mercy killing petition today (7th March, 2011). The court, in its landmark judgement, however allowed Passive Ethunasia in india.
Nurses of KEM hospital are taking care of Aruna Shaunbag for 37 yrs and are celebrating SC verdict today.
Who is Aruna Shaunbag and what happened to her:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruna_Shanbaug) On the night of 27 November 1973 Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at the hospital attacked her while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement. He choked her with a dog chain and sodomized her. The asphyxiation cut off oxygen supply to her brain resulting in brain stem contusion injury and cervical cord injury apart from leaving her cortically blind.
The police case was registered as a case of robbery and attempted murder on account of the concealment of anal rape by the doctors under the instructions of the Dean of KEM, the late Dr. Deshpande perhaps to avoid the social rejection of the victim. Sohanlal was caught and convicted, and he served a seven-year concurrent sentence for assault and robbery. Not for rape or sexual molestation, nor for the "unnatural sexual offence" (which could have got him a ten-year sentence by itself).
Since the assault, she has been in a vegetative state.
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