Walmiki was arrested and convicted to serve two concurrent seven years terms. Later, the police registered a case of robbery and attempt to murder as the hospital authorities allegedly suppressed the anal rape perpetrated on her to avoid her social ostracism and the fact that she was planning to get married soon. The next morning, Shanbaug was found bleeding and in a delicate state, around 10 hours after the attack, by a conservancy staffer and rushed to the hospital for treatment. This resulted in severe injuries to the brain stem and cervical chord injury and she lapsed into a permanent vegetative state - till her death on Monday. While indulging in the gruesome act, the assailant choked her with a dog leash chain which cut off oxygen supply to her brain. Walmiki in the same hospital when she was changing prior to proceeding on long leave for her impending marriage with a young doctor in the hospital, Sandeep Sardesai.
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Then aged 25, Shanbaug was brutally raped by contract sweeper boy Sohanlal B. She breathed her last around 8.30 a.m., plunging the entire hospital into a pall of gloom, especially the nursing staff who idolized her, hospital dean Avinash Supe. Since nearly a week, Shanbaug had suffered from pneuomonia-related ailments and had difficulty in breathing following which was put on a ventilator and was responding to the treatment. Shanbaug, aged 67, was deserted by most of her relatives during her lifetime but was looked after with unwavering dedication by the nurses of Asia's largest public healthcare facility, the BMC-run hospital's Ward No. Shanbaug had been in a vegetative state since she was brutally raped anally by a contract sweep in the KEM Hospital on the night of Nov.
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People paying their last respects to Aruna Shanbaug, who died in Mumbai's KEM Hospital after remaining in coma for almost 42 years (Photo: IANS)