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Aruna Shanbaug, World's oldest comatose patient finally lost the 42-year life battle on Monday. We take a brief look at the case over the years.
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Aruna Shanbaug was a junior nurse at the state-run King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai
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She was brutally raped by a contract sweeper boy, Sohanlal Bharta Walmiki, in the same hospital on the night of November 27, 1973. Walmiki had choked her with a chain which cut off oxygen supply to her brain, resulting in injuries to the brain stem and cervical cord injury.
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After this, Shanbaug slipped into coma and remained in a vegetative state for 42 years.
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On March 2011, author and activist Pinky Virani filed a euthanasia plea for Shanbaug but the Supreme Court rejected it. Former and present staff members and nurses at KEM Hospital also opposed it.
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The Supreme Court said the staff members of KEM, who looked after Shanbaug for several years in the absence of family support, should be considered her next of kin
- Shanbaug passed away at the age of 68. Her health had been deteriorating in the past few days
- What happened to Walmiki: Sohanlal was caught and convicted, and served a seven-year sentence for assault and robbery but not for rape or sexual molestation
