Aruna Shanbhag Case
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Aruna Shanbaug case
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Aruna Shanbaug (or Shanbhag) is a nurse from Haldipur, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka in India. In 1973, while working at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, she was sexually assaulted and has been in a vegetative state since the assault. On 24th January 2011, after she had been in this status for 37 years, the Supreme Court of India responded to the plea for euthanasia filed by Aruna 's friend journalist Pinki Virani, by setting up a medical panel to examine her. The court turned down the mercy killing petition on 7 March, 2011. However in its landmark judgment, it allowedpassive euthanasia in India.[1] Contents [hide] * 1 Attack and trial * 1.1 Nurses ' strike * 2 Supreme Court case * 3 Response * 4 In popular culture * 5 Further reading * 6 References * 7 External links |
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[edit]Attack and trial
Aruna Shanbaug hailing from Haldipur town of Uttar kannada disrtict in Karnataka, was a junior nurse, at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and was planning to get married to a medico in the hospital. [2]
On the night of 27 November 1973, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at the King Edward Memorial Hospital[3] Walmiki was motivated partly by resentment for being ordered about and castigated by Shanbaug.[4][5]Walmiki attacked her while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement. He choked her with a dog chain and sodomized her. The asphyxiation cut off oxygen supply to her brain resulting in brain stem contusion injury and cervical cord injury apart from leaving her cortically blind.[6]
The police case was registered as a case of robbery and attempted murder on account of the concealment of anal rape by the doctors under the instructions of the Dean of KEM, Dr. Deshpande, perhaps to avoid the social rejection of the victim.[7], and her impending marriage. [2]
Walmiki
Aruna Shanbaug case
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aruna Shanbaug (or Shanbhag) is a nurse from Haldipur, Uttar Kannada, Karnataka in India. In 1973, while working at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, she was sexually assaulted and has been in a vegetative state since the assault. On 24th January 2011, after she had been in this status for 37 years, the Supreme Court of India responded to the plea for euthanasia filed by Aruna 's friend journalist Pinki Virani, by setting up a medical panel to examine her. The court turned down the mercy killing petition on 7 March, 2011. However in its landmark judgment, it allowedpassive euthanasia in India.[1] Contents [hide] * 1 Attack and trial * 1.1 Nurses ' strike * 2 Supreme Court case * 3 Response * 4 In popular culture * 5 Further reading * 6 References * 7 External links |
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[edit]Attack and trial
Aruna Shanbaug hailing from Haldipur town of Uttar kannada disrtict in Karnataka, was a junior nurse, at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai and was planning to get married to a medico in the hospital. [2]
On the night of 27 November 1973, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at the King Edward Memorial Hospital[3] Walmiki was motivated partly by resentment for being ordered about and castigated by Shanbaug.[4][5]Walmiki attacked her while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement. He choked her with a dog chain and sodomized her. The asphyxiation cut off oxygen supply to her brain resulting in brain stem contusion injury and cervical cord injury apart from leaving her cortically blind.[6]
The police case was registered as a case of robbery and attempted murder on account of the concealment of anal rape by the doctors under the instructions of the Dean of KEM, Dr. Deshpande, perhaps to avoid the social rejection of the victim.[7], and her impending marriage. [2]
Walmiki
References: The case of Aruna Shanbaug Aruna Shanbaug was a nurse at KEM Hospital, Mumbai and she was sexually assaulted by a hospital sweeper Sohanlal Valmiki in November 27, 1973 Aruna, who is now nearly 60-years-old, slipped into coma after a brutal attack on her at Mumbai 's King Edward Memorial Hospital by a staffer on November 27, 1973.