The Law Commission has come out in support of the Supreme Court judgement on allowing withdrawal of life-support measures of a dying patient with certain safeguards, saying it is 'not objectionable' f

Six orphan siblings in Kannauj, a constituency represented by Dimple Yadav, wife of chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, have submitted a memorandum to the district magistrate on Thursday, pleading for merc

A 38-year-old life convict suffering from AIDS has pleaded for mercy killing.

Periyaswamy, lodged in the Salem central prison for the last six years, told reporters at the local hospital where he was

Life-support system given to a brain-damaged, minimally-conscious woman should not be withdrawn and she should not be allowed to die, a judge has ruled.

This was probably the first time a judge has b

March 7: In an unprecedented verdict, the Supreme Court on Monday opened the window to permitting “mercy killing” of terminally ill patients agonising in hospital for long, with no hope of survival. T

New Delhi: The Supreme Court appears all set to shed light on Monday on the complexities involved in laying down a law on mercy killing in the case of a nurse lying in a 'persistent vegetative state'

Aruna Shanbaug will live, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday on the case of the nurse who has been lying in a 'persistent vegetative state' in Mumbai's KEM hospital for over 37 years.

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