

He was not convicted of rape, sexual molestation, or unnatural sexual offense, the last of which could have been punished with life imprisonment. Sohanlal was caught and convicted of assault and robbery, and he served two concurrent seven-year sentences, being released in 1980.

She was discovered at 7:45 am the following morning by a cleaner. This cut off oxygen to her brain, resulting in a brain stem contusion, cervical cord injury, and cortical blindness. He choked her with a dog chain and raped her. Sohanlal attacked her while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement. On the night of 27 November 1973, the then 25-year-old Shanbaug was sexually assaulted by Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a sweeper on contract at the King Edward Memorial Hospital. At the time of the attack, she was engaged to a doctor employed at the same hospital. She worked as a nurse at the King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM) in Mumbai. Īruna Shanbaug was born in 1948 in Haldipur, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka. Shanbaug died of pneumonia on, after being in a persistent vegetative state for nearly 42 years. However, in its landmark opinion, it allowed passive euthanasia in India. The court rejected the petition on 7 March 2011. On 24 January 2011, after Shanbaug had been in this state for 37 years, the Supreme Court of India responded to a plea for euthanasia filed by journalist Pinki Virani, setting up a medical panel to examine her. In 1973, while working as a junior nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, Shanbaug was sexually assaulted by a ward boy, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, and remained in a vegetative state following the assault. Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug (1 June 1948 – ), was an Indian nurse who was at the centre of attention in a court case on euthanasia after spending nearly 42 years in a vegetative state as a result of sexual assault.
