New Delhi: In a much-awaited verdict, the Supreme Court today ruled that 'passive euthanasia' can be permissible in exceptional circumstances but dismissed a plea for mercy killing on behalf of a 6

A Supreme Court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra on Monday ruled out a mercy killing petition filed in favour of Aruna Shanbaug (63), who was brutally raped in 1973 and re

Mumbai: There was joy and elation among Aruna Shanbaug's former colleagues and nurses tending to her after the Supreme Court today dismissed a plea for mercy killing on behalf of the 60-year-old nu

New Delhi: Following is the chronology of events relating to the 60-year-old KEM nurse Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug whose plea for mercy killing was on Monday rejected by the Supreme Court.

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Even as the Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on a petition seeking mercy killing for Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug, a nurse of the King Edwards Memorial Hospital in Mumbai who is in coma for the past 38 years after she was raped by a staff sweeper, the hospital asked the court to reject the plea, saying that they alone had the right to decide her future.