Aruna shanbaug sohanlal valmiki biography
The rapist who never was: Let's not forget the man who destroyed Aruna Shanbaug's life
The headline says it all.
Cops to trace Aruna Shanbaug’s assailant if he is still alive. For 42 years Aruna Shanbaug lay comatose in a Mumbai hospital. She was the subject of a landmark court case about euthanasia that went all the way to the Supreme Court. There is a law that bears her name that allows passive euthanasia under strict conditions even though it could never be applied to her.
As the front-page coverage of her death shows, the Aruna Shanbaug case was hardly a low-profile one. Yet now that she is dead, we have no idea if the man responsible for putting her into that vegetative state is dead or alive.
The only thing we can be sure of is that he is not in prison.
Shanbaug was assaulted on 27 November, 1973. In 1980, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki the wardboy who assaulted her walked free into the world and disappeared. According to Pinky Virani’s book about Shanbaug , Walmiki was ang Aruna shanbaug sohanlal valmiki biography husband!