Mumbai: Mumbai Police is verifying an information that Sohanlal Bhartha Valmiki, who brutally assaulted Aruna Shanbaug at the KEM hospital here leaving her in a vegetative state for 42 years, was no more.

Senior Police Inspector at Bhoiwada police station, which investigated the case, said his infomation is that Valmiki died a few years back. But the official line of the police is that it has to be verified and confirmed.