Nurses at KEM hospitals who took care of Shanbaug at the hospital and two relatives of Aruna Shanbaug would perform the last rites around 4pm on May 18.

However, nurses at the KEM Hospital demanded that since they had tended to Shanbaug for over four decades, they should be allowed to perform the last rites. The hospital, civic and police authorities have reportedly evolved a compromise by which the nurses and the two relatives shall jointly perform the funeral.
Presently, the hospital has kept her body for public viewing as thousands of people, including nurses, commoners, politicians and others paid homage to Shanbaug.
The last rites shall be performed around 4 p.m. on May 18.
She was aged in her early 60s, deserted by most of her relatives during her lifetime but was looked after with dedication by nurses of Asia’s largest public healthcare facility, the BMC-run KEM Hospital where she lay in Ward No. 4A.
Source-Medindia