The Supreme Court on December 11 ordered the constitution of a Secondary Medical Board by the Director, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), for the purpose of evaluating whether passive euthanasia can be given to a 32-year-old man who has remained in a vegetative state for the past 12 years after falling from a building. The Court will hear the matter on 18th December.

This comes after the Primary Medical Board constituted by the bench comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice KV Viswanathan last week reported that the man's chances of recovery were negligible. As per the guidelines laid down in the 2018 constitution bench judgment in Common Cause , as modified in the January 2023 order , the Court has to get the opinions of Primary and Secondary Medical Boards befo

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