Lucknow, March 11 In their plea to the Supreme Court, the family of the 32-year-old Ghaziabad man, who has been in a coma for more than 12 years, argued that allowing the withdrawal of artificial life support would restore his dignity after years of irreversible suffering.
The top court granted passive euthanasia to Harish Rana, who has been in a permanent vegetative state since 2013 after suffering severe head injuries from a fall from the fourth floor of his paying guest accommodation on August 20 of that year.
Shortly after the Supreme Court delivered its judgment, a crowd consisting mainly of journalists and television cameramen gathered outside the Brahm Raj Empire society in Ghaziabad, where the family currently resides.
Security personnel at the residential complex tightened access and prevented outsiders from entering the premises.
Rashmi Nandakumar, the lawyer representing the family in the Supreme Court, told
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