P.R. Ramachandra Menon, J.

This is an “SOS call” (Save Our Souls call) from two sinking families of the dear ones of a person lying in 'comatose state', finding it extremely difficult to see the ways and means in procuring funds to provide adequate treatment and life support to the victim, who was the sole bread winner of the family, besides the need for their daily sustenance.

2. The victim, lying in a comatose state, is having some properties [immovable/movable] and small bank deposits, but the petitioners are not in a position to deal with the same because of the 'legal hurdles'. They have already incurred huge expenses, as borrowed from different corners, in connection with the treatment. Having exhausted all their financial resources, they are in a state of despair, isolation and abandonment; besides undergoing unending agony, stress and depression on account of the plight of their dear one lying in a 'permanent vegetative state' and 'coma'. The petitioners are constrained to approach this court for appointing the named petitioner/wife of the patient in comatose st