The Supreme Court has asked AIIMS, New Delhi, to set up a secondary medical board to examine 32-year-old Harish Rana, who has been in a vegetative state for the last 13 years , so that it can take a call on a request for passive euthanasia.

This is the second time in as many years that Harish’s parents have approached the Supreme Court seeking passive euthanasia for him.

A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K V Viswanathan directed that the report be submitted to it by December 17, and fixed the matter for hearing on December 18. “ We will have to do something now . We can’t allow him to live like this. That’s for sure,” said Justice Pardiwala on Thursday (December 11).

This is the latest legal movement in a case that has been at the centre of the debate around the ethics and

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