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Euthanasia plea turns out to be false alarm

The plea for euthanasia or mercy killing by a woman, which was turned down by the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court, on behalf of her ten-year-old daughter proved to be a false alarm. Doctors attending to the girl, Pranjali, at the Tukdoji Cancer Hospital in Nagpur found that she is suffering from an ear ailment, not cancer as suspected earlier.

Doctors detected pus formation in her ear, which caused her excruciating pain since the last two years. Joint director of the hospital and ear, nose, throat specialist Dr B K Sharma said Pranjali needed a masteroidoctomy operation for draining out the pus from the masteroid bone that forms the ear passage. Experts were still carrying out some tests, he added.

The girl's mother, farm labourer Shobha Ganesh Rohi of Chandurbazar village in Amravati district, had pleaded before the court for mercy killing of her daughter, unable to bear the girl's suffering and being unable to provide her proper treatment. She said that Pranjali herself expressed a desire to die.

A division bench of the high court treated her plea as a criminal writ petition, and had turned down the request last week. The bench directed the government to get the girl diagnosed and report to it within a week's time.

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