Ms Shanbaug is force fed by nurses looking after her twice a day at the KEM hospital in Mumbai.

BBC: India doctors to examine 'euthanasia' woman

But nurses at the KEM hospital in Mumbai (Bombay), where Ms Shanbaug is a patient, welcomed the Supreme Court verdict, the BBC's Vineet Khare reports from Mumbai.

BBC: India court rejects Aruna Shanbaug euthanasia plea