SC seeks Centre reply for plea seeking 'medical board' for allowing man passive euthanasia

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the central government to file a reply to the plea seeking direction for the constitution of a medical board to consider whether a man who is in a vegetative state can be allowed to undergo passive euthanasia (mercy killing).

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A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has sought a response from the Centre and others on the plea. The man, through his mother and father, has approached the Supreme Court, challenging the Delhi High Court order. The petitioner was represented by advocate Manish Jain and Jugul Kishor Gupta.

The petition said that the man is in a miserable state due to diffuse axonal injury with a permanent vegetative state (PSV), which is also known as unresponsive wakefulness syndrome", Quadriplegia (100 percent disability) is a symptom of paralysis that affects all limbs and body of a person from the neck down.

The man was doing B Tech at Punjab University in 2013, wherein he met with a head injury after falling from the 4th floor of his PG.