Pinki Virani, who wrote a biography of Shanbaug and petitioned the Supreme Court for a mercy killing tells The Telegraph “Hospital ward boys claim he moved to Delhi, changed his identity and went on to work in a Delhi hospital.”
Apparently not even a picture exists of him in hospital and police files or court records! "We have been able to maintain the documents that are at the most 20 years old, but as this case is more than 40 years old, we are not sure whether Shanbaug’s papers would be in the records," said senior police inspector Sunil Tondwalkar from the Bhoiwada police station which had registered the original case in 1973 according to DNA. He is a native of Bulandshahr and had got married shortly before he raped Shanbaug. Little is known about him even though he was a hospital employee. But that’s only if they can find Walmiki.
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Now that Shanbaug is dead the Mumbai Police is exploring the possibility of adding Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code to the case four decades after the fact. According to Pinky Virani’s book about Shanbaug, Walmiki was angry with her because she had accused him of stealing the food of the dogs used in medical experiments and threatened to report him.
In 1980, Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki the wardboy who assaulted her walked free into the world and disappeared. Shanbaug was assaulted on 27 November, 1973. The only thing we can be sure of is that he is not in prison. Yet now that she is dead, we have no idea if the man responsible for putting her into that vegetative state is dead or alive. As the front-page coverage of her death shows, the Aruna Shanbaug case was hardly a low-profile one.