aruna shanbaug fiance dr.sundeep sardesai

She keeps aging like all of, but does not create any problems for anybody. “We take turns to tend to her just like any small child. Moved by her lamentable plight, Virani in December 2009 filed a plea in the Supreme Court seeking “mercy killing” for Aruna. But the nurses were aghast. The nurses’ unprecedented commitment earned admiration even from the Supreme Court, and the hospital authorities, but time was not kind to Aruna – leaving her body shrivelled into a ghostly shadow of her former robust self, hair greying and falling, teeth lost. But later, social and other commitments compelled him to move on in life,” author-journalist Pinki Virani, who penned the best-seller biography “Aruna’s Story” in 1998, told IANS.Īs the years passed with little hopes of Aruna’s revival, the nurses in KEM took on her care as their personal responsibility.

He dedicatedly looked after her and awaited a miracle to continue their broken lives for over two years. Released later, he is believed to be settled in Delhi.Īruna meanwhile remained in a coma in Ward 4 A of KEM but did not lack support. “Contrary to perceptions, her fiance did not desert her. Walmiki was subsequently arrested, convicted and sentenced to serve two concurrent seven years sentence. Police registered a case of robbery and attempt to murder as the hospital authorities allegedly suppressed information of her rape to avoid her social ostracism and since she was planning to get married soon. “The perpetrator got away with a minor punishment, but she suffered all her life,” Gaitonde told IANS. The incident happened just when she was planning to settle down in life, both personal and professional.

Aruna shanbaug fiance dr.sundeep sardesai