New Delhi, Dec. 19 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday moved a step closer to taking a "final call" on whether life support and medical treatment may be withdrawn from a 31-year-old man who has remained in a vegetative state for more than a decade, after a secondary medical board at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) concluded that there was little to no possibility of his condition improving. A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan fixed January 13 to personally interact with the parents and siblings of Harish Rana, signalling that the court is now poised to issue final directions in a case that could become India's first judicially sanctioned instance of passive euthanasia. After perusing the AIIMS report, Additi...