[Reader-list] Unconscious for last 36 yrs; victim seeks SC permission to die

[A.K. Malik]

Hi Mr Kaul,
              What a justice system in our country? The victim woman gets 36 yrs to live as a veggi and the culprit who did all this to her gets 7 yrs only for attempt to murder and lives happily after the sentence.
Regards,

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] Unconscious for last 36 yrs; victim seeks SC permission to die
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 3:55 PM
> Unconscious for last 36 yrs; victim
> seeks SC permission to die*Press Trust
> Of India*
> New Delhi, December 17, 2009
> 
> Should a woman who has been lying unconsious in a Mumbai
> hospital for 36
> years be allowed to die or be left in the current
> vegetative state?
> 
> That was the question put before the Supreme Court today
> when it said that
> “under the law of the country, we cannot allow a person
> to die”.
> 
> The remarks by a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G
> Balakrishnan and
> Justices A K Ganguly and B S Chauhan came when a direction
> was sought that
> the woman be not fed.
> 
> The Bench sought a response from the Centre and Maharashtra
> government on a
> petition moved by 59-year-old Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug who
> has been lying
> in a vegetative state for last 36 years in Mumbai’s KEM
> hospital after being
> sexually assaulted by a sweeper.
> 
> The Bench, which was hesitant to entertain the petition,
> agreed to issue the
> notice after advocate Shekhar Nafde explained it is not the
> case of
> “euthanasia” and the plea on behalf of the hapless
> woman was moved by her
> next friend Pinki Virani.
> 
> “This is no human right. Her life is worse than animal
> existence,” the
> advocate said referring to Shanbaug.
> 
> He said Shanbaug, who had joined as a nurse in the KEM
> hospital in 1966, was
> sexually assaulted in 1973, rendered immobile and
> unconscious and has been
> lying on bed after the incident.
> 
> The petition sought a direction for the state government
> and Municipal
> Corporation of Brihan Mumbai to carry out tests to
> ascertain the medical
> condition of the woman.
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