Today, May 18, Shanbaug breathed her last.
When the court delivered its verdict he spoke from the US to the hospital matron.
ARUNA SHANBAUG FIANCE DR.SUNDEEP SARDESAI FULL
The young doctor would visit her every day for four full years but later moved on in life. In 2011, the Supreme Court turned down a petition for mercy killing and immediately the nurses, who had been looking after her, celebrated the verdict.Īt the time of her assault, Shanbaug was engaged to Dr. One moment of murderous lust by a hospital contract sweeper consigned a young woman looking forward to her impending marriage to over four decades of a vegetative half-life. In 1980, the hospital tried to move Shanbaug out in order to free the bed, but the nursing staff would have none of it. In the meantime Valmiki was convicted, served a seven-year sentence and picked up the threads of his life even as Aruna lay comatose on a hospital bed. She hasn’t known anybody or anything, ever since. Ever since she has been in coma, abandoned by her family and attended to by KEM nurses in what is the most self-less act of the medical community. Yes, throttled her with a dog chain that cut the oxygen supply to her brains. He waited for four years for her to revive but. In the winter of 1973, a ward boy in Mumbai’s Kings Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, Sohanlal Valmiki, sodomized a 28-year-old nurse, Aruna Shanbaug, and throttled her with a dog-chain. At the time of this incident, she was engaged to Sundeep Sardesai, a resident doctor in the same hospital. But, you see, it happened in 1973 and 42 years is a horribly long time in an age when public memory is short. It was worse than the Delhi gang-rape case. This is the mother feed of all the shows produced by Indicast including a. Her case should have rankled India like no other case. Indicast is Indias longest running and most popular Indian podcast network. She died, a second time, on May 18, 2015.
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