History was made today, with three Constitution benches sitting at the same time in the Supreme Court at 2 pm.

Pleas for euthanasia were made not only on behalf of nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who passed away of natural causes yesterday after 42 years in a vegetative state following her rape, but kin of many others in similar situation also had sought end of their lives in a dignified manner. Most of these pleas we...

The Supreme Court today rejected activist Pinky Virani’s mercy-killing petition for comatose former nurse Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug with the case not qualifying for “passive euthanasia” which the court accepted “in principle”.