Supreme Court agrees to hear plea on ‘passive euthanasia’ for rabies patients
By : Sandhya
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea in two weeks seeking passive euthanasia for rabies patients, challenging a 2019 Delhi high court ruling that denied the request to treat rabies as an exceptional disease and allow patients the option of “death with dignity.”
The matter was presented before a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran. NGO All Creatures Great and Small approached the Supreme Court, challenging a July 2019 Delhi High Court order that had denied the request to direct the Centre and other authorities to treat rabies as an exceptional disease and offer patients the option of “death with dignity.”
The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Centre and other parties in January 2020, seeking their responses to the 2019 petition.
