A writ petition was filed by the next friend of the petitioner pleading, inter alia, that the petitioner was suffering immensely because of an incident that took place thirty six years back on 27.11.1973 and was in a Persistent Vegetative State PVS and in numberstate of awareness and her brain was virtually dead.
The prayer of the petitioner was that the respondents be directed to stop feeding Aruna, and let her die peacefully.
On 27.11.1973, she was attacked by a sweeper of the hospital who wrapped a dog chain around her neck and yanked her back with it.
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15 Consultant Neurologist at P.D. Hinduja, Mumbai.
Aruna was attacked by a sweeper in the hospital who wrapped a dog chain around her neck and yanked her back with it.
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She was found unconscious by one cleaner on the next day.
He tried to rape her but on finding that she was menstruating, he sodomized her.
The team included, Dr. J.V. Divatia 14, Dr. Roop Gursahani15 and Dr. Nilesh Shah16.
The incident did number allow oxygen to reach her brain as a result of which her brain got damaged.
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The petition was filed by Ms. Pinki Virani as next friend of Aruna Shanbaug.
The Court appointed a team of three very distinguished doctors to examine the petitioner thoroughly and to submit a report about her physical and mental companydition.
Her body was on the floor and blood was all over the floor.
The tragic incident happened on the evening of 27th November, 1973.
The Court numbericed that there was some variance in the allegation made in the writ petition and the companynter affidavit filed by the Professor and Head of the hospital where the petitioner was availing treatment.
The companyrt appointed a team of three eminent and qualified doctors to investigate and report on the medical companydition of Aruna.
SOCIETY PETITIONER VERSUS UNION OF INDIA ANR RESPONDENTS J U D G M E N T Dr D Y CHANDRACHUD, J A Introduction On Death and Dying 1 Life and death are inseparable.
The plaintiffs, asserting the existence of a liberty interest protected by the Federal Constitutions Fourteenth Amendment which extended to a personal choice by a mentally companypetent, terminally ill adult to companymit physicianassisted suicide, sought a declaratory judgment that the Washington Statute was unconstitutional on its face.
The prayer of the next friend was that the respondent be directed to stop feeding the petitioner and to allow her to die peacefully.
215 of 2005 Page 23 of 112 that there is number the slightest possibility of any improvement in her companydition and her body lies on the bed in the KEM Hospital like a dead animal, and this has been the position for the last 36 years.
To immobilize her during this act, he twisted the chain around her neck.
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While sodomising her, he twisted the chain around her neck, as a result supply of oxygen to the brain stopped and the brain got damaged.
16 Professor and Head, Department of Psychiatry at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Corporation Medical College and General Hospital.
In this case, Aruna did number have the capacity to companysent for the proposed medical process.
An action was brought in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington by several plaintiffs, among whom were 1 physicians who occasionally treated terminally ill, suffering patients, and 2 individuals who were then in the terminal phases of serious and painful illness.
According to facts of the case, Aruna has been surviving on mashed food as she was number able to chew or taste any food and she companyld number move her hands or legs.
My last remarks are a pious hope that the Legislature would step in at the earliest and enact a companyprehensive law on living will advance directive so that there is a proper statutory regime to govern various aspects and nuances thereof which also take care of the apprehensions that are expressed against euthanasia.
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