Aruna Shanbaug: Timeline

Nov 27, 1973 | Aruna Shanbaug, a nurse at King Edward Memorial Hospital (KEM), Parel, is sexually assaulted by ward boy Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki. He uses a dog chain to throttle Aruna. The strangulation cuts off the blood and oxygen supply to her brain
Nov 28, 1973 | Walmiki is arrested. The brutality of the incident shocked the city
Nov 29, 1973 | The attack leaves Aruna blind, deaf, paralysed and in a vegetative state
1974 | Valmiki is charged with attempted murder and for robbing Aruna's earrings, but not for rape.The police did not take into account that she was sodomized. A trial court awards Valmiki seven years imprisonment. This is reduced to six years because he had already served a year in lock up
1980 | Walmiki walks out of jail. In the following years, the municipal body makes two attempts to shift Aruna outside KEM to free the bed she has been occupying for seven years. KEM nurses launch a protest, and BMC shelves the plan
2009 | 'Aruna's Story' author moves the Supreme Court seeking Aruna's force-feeding to be stopped
Jan 24, 2011 | Apex court forms a medical team to examine Aruna
Feb 2011 | The committee submits a report that Aruna Shanbaug "meets all the criteria for being in a permanent vegetative state"
March 2, 2011 | SC reserves judgment
May 18, 2015 | Aruna Shanbaug dies