Supreme Court allows passive euthanasia

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A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra said passive euthanasia and advance living will are "permissible".
Shanbaug was raped on the night of 27 November, 1973, by Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy who worked on contract at the KEM Hospital. Sohanlal attacked her while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement.
He choked her with a dog chain and sodomised her. The asphyxiation cut off oxygen supply to her brain After the brutal assault Shanbaug was admitted to the same hospital. For 42 years, she was in the same Ward 4 in a comatose state.

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