{"id":21803,"date":"2012-07-16T19:24:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=21803"},"modified":"2012-07-16T19:24:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:54:50","slug":"sc-constitutes-medical-team-to-examine-conjoint-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-constitutes-medical-team-to-examine-conjoint-twins","title":{"rendered":"SC constitutes medical team to examine conjoint twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Supreme Court(SC)<\/strong><\/span> today asked the Centre to constitute a medical board to provide medical aide to 16-year-old Bihar&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>conjoint twins Saba and Farah Saleem<\/strong><\/span>, observing that <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>&#8220;the acute agony of the girls would shock anybody\u2019s<\/strong> <\/span>conscience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0An SC\u00a0bench of <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra<\/strong><\/span> also issued notices to the Centre, <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Attorney General G E Vahanvati<\/strong> <\/span>and the Bihar Government, on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by Aarushi Dhasmana, a second year law student from Pune, for their replies on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The\u00a0SC said the team shall include Dr Benjamin Carson, a leading American specialist on conjoined twins, working here at Apollo Hospital and other experts from the <span style=\"color: #800000;text-decoration: underline\"><strong>All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Quoting newspaper reports, the petition filed through counsel Ravi Prakash Gupta, said the two grown up girls born as twins joined at the head are undergoing immense pain and are unable to even sleep due to consistent unbearable pain.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0While seeking medical aid at government&#8217;s expenditure, the PIL said if it is not possible, the parents be permitted to adopt &#8220;mercy killing&#8221; of the twins.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0According to the petition, Saba and Farah have been bedridden and are experiencing persistent, acute agony and distress and are neither able to sleep adequately nor get up from their bed and this has made their lives miserable.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0It said the twins&#8217; father, Mohammad Shakeel, a tea stall owner in Patna, who is distressed by their growing sufferings, had pleaded for mercy killing for his twins last year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Gupta said an expert team headed by Dr Benjamin Carlos about 5 years ago had opined that to separate Saba and Farah, it would require five or six operations over nine months, but each stage held a one-in-five chance that either of the girls might die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court(SC) today asked the Centre to constitute a medical board to provide medical aide to 16-year-old Bihar&#8217;s conjoint twins Saba and Farah Saleem, observing that &#8220;the acute agony of the girls would shock anybody\u2019s conscience.&#8221; \u00a0An SC\u00a0bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra also issued notices to the Centre, Attorney General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10522,3241,10523,47726],"class_list":["post-21803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-law-news","tag-constitution-of-medical-team-to-examine-conjoint-twins","tag-sc","tag-sc-constitutes-medical-team-to-examine-conjoint-twins","tag-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SC constitutes medical team to examine conjoint twins  - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Supreme Court(SC) today asked the Centre to constitute a medical board to provide medical aide to 16-year-old Bihar&#039;s conjoint twins Saba and Farah - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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