The Maharashtra government on Monday said it will not reopen the case of Aruna Shanbaug, the former nurse who died after lying in coma for 42 years following a brutal sexual assault, unless the court orders.

On November 27, 1973, Shanbaug (66), working at the government-run KEM hospital here, was attacked by Sohanlal Bhartha Walmiki a ward boy, in the changing room.