Aruna Shanbaug's - Living the torture

Have you come across an incident so gruesome as that of 'Aruna Shanbaug' ; well i certainly haven't. Her journey of life being just a mere display of the injustice done to her, something that is again and again passing by her.

A glimpse of her story as picked from wikipedia :

Aruna Shanbhag is a nurse from Haldipur, Shimoga, Karnataka in India. In 1973, while she was working at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai she was assaulted by a Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki, a ward boy at the hospital.^[1] Walmiki was motivated partly by resentment for being ordered about and castigated by Shanbaug.

On the night of 27 November, 1973 he attacked her while she was changing clothes in the hospital basement for leaving her shift. He choked her with a dog chain and sodomized her. The asphyxiation during the course of the assault cut off oxygen supply to her brain resulting in brain stem contusion injury and cervical cord injury as well as leaving her cortically blind

The initial medical examination to verify rape as the crime found that Aruna had no vaginal bruises and her hymen was intact. Aruna was menstruating on the day and therefore the rapist did not penetrate her. Subsequent medical reports prove that she bled for days together from the anus.

The police case was registered as a case of robbery and attempted murder, but not rape on account of the concealment of anal rape by the doctors under the instructions of the Dean of KEM, the late Dr. Deshpande perhaps to avoid the social rejection which might break her impending marriage to her fiancé, Dr. Sundeep Sardesai.

She since the assault has been in a vegetative state "TILL DATE".

The last few words are disheartening and especially when you realize that her fight for justice is still ongoing...

The reason for sharing this story is because, it has left an impact on me as a person and only if what she went through is shared with all, can justice eventually be sought for.

No effort goes in vain , if there is a purpose behind it. The purpose is to let the crime builders know the after effects of their cruel intents, and the fight to seek for justice from the so called justice givers.

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