The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hear after two weeks the plea filed by the NGO, All Creatures Great and Small (ACGAS), seeking the right to passive euthanasia for rabies patients.A two-judge bench of the apex court, led by Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran, adjourned the plea for two weeks.The NGO, ACGAS, had moved the apex court in 2019 and prayed that a procedure should be laid down for rabies patients to allow them or their guardians to opt for the assistance of physicians for assisted dying or passive euthanasia.In 2020, hearing the Public Interest Litigation (PIL), the top court issued a notice to the Centre and sought responses from ministries of health and environment.The NGO had moved the top court, after a five-judge Constitution bench of the SC had on March 2018, in its verdict held that the right to life includes the right to die and legalised passive euthanasia by allowing the creation of a ‘living will’.
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