![]() ![]() Crime Committed in a Fit of RageĪccording to Valmiki, he choked Aruna ‘didiji’ with a dog chain in a fit of rage for being repeatedly pulled up for his misdemeanors. Yes, he was charged with assault and robbery and sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. Here are a couple of facts that you may have missed about the man: #1. The ward boy who assaulted the nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai on 27 November, 1973 is now hounded by media and memories. Aruna Shanbaug’s tormentor, Sohanlal Valmiki (also spelt as Walmiki), is currently one of the most hated men in the country. The media called him the ‘forgotten rapist’ who stole 42 years of a woman’s life by sexually molesting her and rendering her a cripple when she was in her prime. On March, 7, 2011, the Supreme Court noted that the KEM staff had developed an emotional bond with Aruna, and were nothing short of her real family. Aruna was introduced to every new intern till date as the “Hospital’s baby”. All the working and the retired nurses of the hospital had celebrated when the court rejected the plea. Their staff was against Pinki Virani for filing a petition for euthanasia. KEM hospital has taken care of Aruna for the last 40 years. He had sneaked into her room and had brought down the rails of her bed in an attempt to push her down from the bed. The report states that Lal however returned to attack his victim Aruna again after he was released. He went on to work in a private hospital in Delhi for many years. Sohan Lal was released after seven years of imprisonment. ![]() She also added that Sohan Lal was never tried for rape but just attempted murder, since an official from the hospital had deleted the report that proved that Shanbaug was raped, in order to safeguard her marital life and dignity, states the newspaper. He had waited for her to revive for four years, but eventually moved on, states the report.įormer matron of KEM Deepa Mehta, who had taken care of Shanbaug for more than two decades, said that the incident had led to independent India’s first nurse strike that demanded justice and treatment for Shanbaug and better protection and working conditions for nurses. She was engaged to Sundeep Sardesai who was a resident doctor in the hospital at the time of the assault. Shanbaug’s family is said to have abandoned her after the incident. She also said that Shanbaug wanted to say something and had tears in her eyes but fell unconscious as soon as she saw her and matron Bellimal, who was summoned for help. Pramila Kushe, a retired nurse from KEM hospital, had in 2011 told The Telegraph that she was the first one to find Shanbaug after the attack in the hospital’s basement where “she sat leaning on the stool with a dog-chain around her neck” in a pool of blood. He had used a dog chain to throttle her in the hospital's canine experiment room, which had cut the blood and oxygen supply to her brain, leaving her paralyzed and confined to bed. Shanbaug, who hails from Karnataka, was assaulted by the hospital’s sweeper Sohan Lal on November 27, 1973. 67-year-old Shanbaug has been in a vegetative state for over four decades now. In 2011, Shanbaug’s story gained national attention after her friend Pinki Virani, an author and a journalist, had filed a petition in the High Court demanding mercy killing (euthanasia) for the former, but the plea was rejected. Aruna Shanbaug, former nurse at KEM hospital, Mumbai, who has been bedridden for the past 42 years breathed her last on Monday morning according to an India Today report.Īruna has been in vegetative state after she was brutally raped by a ward boy in 1973 and has been hospitalized at KEM ever since.The 68-year-old Aruna was admitted to the ICU on Saturday and was on ventilator after she was diagnosed with pneumonia.Īt the age of 26, while working as a junior nurse at KEM Hospital in Mumbai’s Parel area,Aruna was brutally assaulted by a ward boy, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, who used a dog chain to throttle her, cutting off blood and oxygen supply to her brain.
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