New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday directed that the Unnao rape survivor, who suffered critical injuries in a car-truck collision last week, be airlifted from Lucknow to New Delhi for better treatment at the AIIMS.
Minutes before, the apex court had deferred the hearing on the issue of transfer of the woman and her injured lawyer, for further hearing on Friday as no one on behalf of their families appeared and sought their transfer here.
However, the lawyer of the family later appeared before a bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose and said the mother now wanted her injured daughter to be shifted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for better care as she was still critical.
The bench took note of the submissions of lawyer D Ramakrishna Reddy, appearing for the victim, and ordered that she be transferred from the King George’s Medical College in Lucknow to the AIIMS.
Fixing the case on Friday, it also made clear that the family of the injured lawyer can also seek the same relief and approach it as and when they need.
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Doctors on Monday, said that the condition of the Unnao rape survivor and her lawyer, who are undergoing treatment at a Lucknow hospital is “serious and stable.”
“The condition of the rape survivor is improving. She is following command and opened eyes and understanding things,” a medical bulletin issued by the King George’s Medical University (KGMU) said. “The process of removing the ventilator has started, but she has to be given medicines to maintain her blood pressure.”
The rape survivor’s lawyer is breathing without a ventilator, but his condition is not improving and he is still in “deep coma”, the KGMU said.
The rape survivor and her lawyer suffered critical injuries on July 28 when the car in which they were travelling was hit by a truck in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae Bareilly district. Two of her relatives were killed in the incident.
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