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Veteran freedom fighter Lakshmi Sehgal dead
Monday July 23, 2012 02:55:14 PM, IANS
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Kanpur: Lakshmi
Sehgal, a close associate of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the
first head of the women's wing of the Azad Hind Fauj, died around
11.20 a.m. Monday at a private hospital in Kanpur, her family
said. She was 97.
She was in coma for the past three days after suffering a massive
heart attack. The family announced that Sehgal had donated her
body for medical research.
Sehgal's daughter Subhashini Ali, a former member of parliament,
told IANS that the family had decided to switch off the ventilator
after doctors advised that her revival was impossible.
"We switched off the ventilator at around 11 am and she passed
away at around 11.20 a.m.," Ali said.
The body would be kept for people to pay their respects at her
house in Mac Robertsganj and would be taken in a procession
Tuesday to the S.N. Medical College, Ali said.
Doctors attending on Sehgal said that her vital parametres had
slowed down since Saturday and all efforts to revive her failing
organs had failed. She slipped into coma thereafter.
At the time of her death a large number of well-wishers, followers
and local residents had gathered outside the hospital. Ali was at
her side when the end came.
The first captain of the women's wing of Azad Hind Fauj or Indian
National Army, Sehgal was visited by CPI-M leaders Brinda and
Prakash Karat and filmmaker and grandson Shaad Ali.
Sehghal, herself a doctor, was working at her clinic in Civil
Lines area here a day before she suffered a heart attack. Sehgal
was the Left candidate in the 2002 presidential election, when she
lost to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
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