Harish Rana: How top court decided ‘best interest’ for a patient who couldn’t

The Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling permitting passive euthanasia also brings into focus another significant legal doctrine: the “best interest of the patient.”
The decision, delivered by a two-judge bench comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan, operates at what the judges described as the delicate intersection of “love, loss, medicine, and mercy”.