Skip to main content
PRJ-LIVE-MH-1973-ARUNASexual AssaultCLOSED CONVICTED✓ Conviction

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra

Incident: 1973-11-27

IPC Sections: 376, 307

Victims: 1

Data confidence:99%

Progress

✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓

Timeline · 4 events

  1. FIR FILEDMilestone99%

    Sohan Lal Walmiki (ward boy) attacks nurse Aruna Shanbaug in KEM Hospital basement: sodomizes her and strangles with dog chain; she is left in vegetative state. Accused arrested.

    IK
  2. VERDICT PRONOUNCEDMilestone95%

    Sohan Lal convicted of robbery and attempt to commit unnatural offences (sodomy); sentenced to 7 years. Original rape charge not invoked as she was in vegetative state.

    Court: Sessions Court, Mumbai

    NDTV
  3. VERDICT PRONOUNCEDMilestone99%

    Supreme Court delivers landmark passive euthanasia ruling in Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug v. Union of India: recognises right to withdraw life support; denies petition for active euthanasia filed by journalist Pinki Virani.

    Court: Supreme Court of India

    SC7/3/2011
  4. CASE CLOSEDMilestone99%

    Aruna Shanbaug passes away at KEM Hospital after 42 years in vegetative state. KEM nursing staff mourns. Case remains a defining reference in Indian medical ethics and women's rights jurisprudence.

    HINDU18/5/2015

Key Milestones

  • ◆1973-11-28FIR FILED
  • ◆1974-01-01VERDICT PRONOUNCED
  • ◆2011-03-07VERDICT PRONOUNCED
  • ◆2015-05-18CASE CLOSED
Privacy notice: Victim identities are protected via cryptographic pseudonymisation. Accused names may be partially redacted pending conviction. All data sourced from public records.