India, March 24 -- Harish Rana, India's first person to be allowed passive euthanasia, passed away on Tuesday AIIMS-Delhi after more than 13 years in coma after the completion of medical procedures.

Rana was shifted from his Ghaziabad home to the palliative care unit at Dr BR Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital at the AIIMS on March 14. He passed away at 4:10pm on Tuesday at the Delhi hospital, officials said.

The process of passive euthanasia for 32-year old Harish Rana, whose "right to die" was upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this month, began last week and was expected to take several days given the multiple stages involved, including gradually withholding or withdrawing the nutritional support.

Rana, a resident of Uttar P...