Rape Victim Died After Being in Coma for 42 YearsAruna Shanbaug, former nurse of Mumbai’s Kings Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital, who was raped in 1973 by a ward boy at the hospital, has died on Monday after being in coma for over four decades. Aruna was 67 year old. She had been in vegetative state for 42 years ever since she was brutally assualted and raped by ward boy at her work place.
Aruna had been suffering from pneumonia for a while. She was put on ventilator for a week before she breathed her last at 8.30 AM on May 18, 2015.
It may be recalled that the Supreme Court had rejected a petition in March 2011 filed by former journalist and author Pinki Virani, who had sought mercy killing (euthanasia) for Aruna Shanbaug, which the KEM hospital’s management and nursing staff had opposed.
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