Supreme Court of India
Harish Rana v. Union of India
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the medical treatment ought not to be prolonged any further.
Judgment, page 282
In brief
The applicant, Harish Rana, then a 20-year-old B.Tech student, fell from the fourth floor of his paying-guest accommodation on 20.08.2013 and sustained a diffuse axonal brain injury. He has since remained bedridden in a permanent vegetative state with quadriplegia and certified 100% permanent disability, dependent on a tracheostomy, urinary catheter and clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) administered through a PEG tube requiring replacement every two months, with recurring bedsores and infections.…
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