Aruna Shanbaug's assailant Sohanlal Walmiki, who was traced few days ago in Parpa village of Uttar Pradesh, has reportedly left the village and also lost his job.
According to Mumbai Mirror report, Walmiki who was working as safai karamchari at the NTPC plant was asked to leave by the contractor he was hired, after media reports.
"That very day when all the media descended here and few of them went to the NTPC plant where my father works, the contractor told him to leave the job," reported Mumbai Mirror quoting Valmiki's eldest son Krishna.
Krishna further said that his father has not eaten anything since the day media came looking for him, and now he has already left the village to stay with relatives in Madhya Pradesh.
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Few days ago, a journalist from Marathi newspaper met Walmiki, the ward boy who assaulted Aruna at King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai on November 27, 1973.
Walmiki, who throttled Aruna with a dog leash rendering her a cripple at the prime of youth, had said he cannot recall anything about what had happened on that day.
However, he asked the journalist "why are you people calling it as rape".
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Walmiki was jailed and released in 1980, not to be heard of again. Now after Aruna's death, he has been traced to Parpa village in Ghaziabad district of UP. He was never convicted for rape or sexual molestation but for assault and robbery.
For 42 years, Shanbaug lay comatose in the hospital until her death earlier this month, where she was cared by nurses and members of medical fraternity here .
She also became the subject of a landmark case about euthanasia that went all the way to the Supreme Court. There is a law that bears her name that allows passive euthanasia under strict conditions even though it could never be applied to her.
