Harish Rana v. Union of India
2026 judgment of the Supreme Court of India
Harish Rana v. Union of India
Harish Rana v. Union of India (2026 SCC OnLine SC 358) is a landmark judgment of the Supreme Court of India, delivered on 11 March 2026, in which the Court permitted the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for Harish Rana, a 32-year-old man who had remained in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) for over thirteen years following a traumatic brain injury sustained in 2013. The judgment is widely recognised as the first judicial implementation of India's passive euthanasia framework in an individual case, applying the constitutional and procedural principles established by the Supreme Court in Common Cause v. Union of India (2018). The ruling was delivered by a bench comprising Justice J. B. Pardiwala and Justice K. V. Viswanathan. The Court permitted the withdrawal of Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) being administered through a surgically installed PEG tube, directed the admission of Harish Rana to the palliative care department of the All India Institute of Medical...
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