New Delhi, January 07: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected Aruna Shanbaug’s mercy killing plea. She has been living in a vegetative state for the last 37 years after a brutal sexual assault.
Aruna Shanbaug was working as a nurse at Mumbai’s KEM Hospital when on the night of November 27, 1973, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at the hospital, attacked and sodomised her in the hospital basement.
The attack left her cortically blind, that means she can see, but her brain does not register the sight. The convicted ward boy was let off after seven years of imprisonment.
——–Agencies