<p>Moved by the plight of conjoined twins from Bihar, a 20-year-old law student on Monday approached the Supreme Court seeking direction to the government to set up a high-level committee of doctors headed by American expert Dr Benjamin Carson to operate them in order to relieve them of excruciating pain.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra directed for constituting a medical board to provide help to the 16-year-old twins Saba and Farah Saleem and issued notice to the Centre, Attorney General and Bihar government on the PIL.<br /><br />Lucknow-based Aarushi Dhasmana, who is studying law in Pune, submitted that the government should step in to help separate the two girls, who were born in a family of a tea stall owner Mohammed Shakeel of Patna, earning meager Rs 5,000 per month.<br /><br />“If there is no hope of survival of any of them through operative procedure, then after ascertaining medical opinion, may permit the girls if able to give consent, or otherwise, with the consent of parents to exercise their natural right to death (mercy killing) with a safeguard of prior consent of President,” the petition filed by advocate Ravi Prakash Gupta said.<br /><br />Quoting media reports, the petition said, “the experts had ruled that separating Saba and Farah 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>
<p>Moved by the plight of conjoined twins from Bihar, a 20-year-old law student on Monday approached the Supreme Court seeking direction to the government to set up a high-level committee of doctors headed by American expert Dr Benjamin Carson to operate them in order to relieve them of excruciating pain.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra directed for constituting a medical board to provide help to the 16-year-old twins Saba and Farah Saleem and issued notice to the Centre, Attorney General and Bihar government on the PIL.<br /><br />Lucknow-based Aarushi Dhasmana, who is studying law in Pune, submitted that the government should step in to help separate the two girls, who were born in a family of a tea stall owner Mohammed Shakeel of Patna, earning meager Rs 5,000 per month.<br /><br />“If there is no hope of survival of any of them through operative procedure, then after ascertaining medical opinion, may permit the girls if able to give consent, or otherwise, with the consent of parents to exercise their natural right to death (mercy killing) with a safeguard of prior consent of President,” the petition filed by advocate Ravi Prakash Gupta said.<br /><br />Quoting media reports, the petition said, “the experts had ruled that separating Saba and Farah 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>
