For the first time in 42 years, there is no hustle and bustle in room no. 4 at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital, with its sole occupant for over four decades having passed away.

However, for nurses who attended to Aruna Shanbaug, a former nurse at the KEM hospital, as she lay in a coma all these years after she was sexually assaulted in 1973, it is hard to let go off someone who they treated like a family member.