Supreme Court of India

Common Cause (a Regd. Society) v. Union of India

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Reported as [2014] 3 S.C.R. 289

Bench P. Sathasivam, Ranjan Gogoi and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.

Decided 25 February 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that all that has been said therein is that the view in Rathinam's case (supra) that the right to life includes the right to die is not correct.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

CONSTITUTION OF IND/ , 1950: Art. 21 rlw Art. 32 - Prayer to declare 'right to die with dignity' a fundamental right and to make provision for "living c will and Attorney authorization" to exercise right to refuse cruel and unwarranted medical treatment to artificially prolong the natural life of terminally ill persons in the event of their going 0 into permanent vegetative state - Matter referred to Constitution Bench. Gian Kaur vs. State of Punjab 1996 (3) _SCR 697 ={1996) 2 S_CC 648; Aruna Ramchand13 _Shanbaug vs. Union of India 2011 (4) SCR 1057 = (2011) 4 SCC 454 and Parmanand Katara vs.

Authorities it was built on

1989 Pt. Parmanand Katara v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 15

Where later benches applied it

2023 Supriyo @ Supriya Chakraborty & Anr v. Union of India relied on
2018 Dr. Ashwani Kumar v. Union of India & Ors. relied on
2022 Jacob Puliyel v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2021 Ravinder Kumar Dhariwal & Anr. v. The Union of India & Ors. referred to
2020 Arnab Manoranjan Goswami v. The State of Maharashtra & Ors. referred to
2019 Accused 'x' v. State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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