| Shanti Kumari | |||||||||||||||||
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| Shortland Street character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Nisha Madhan | ||||||||||||||||
| Introduced by | Jason Daniel | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2007–09 | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 16 May 2007 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | 23 October 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former; regular | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date of death | 19 October 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Nurse | ||||||||||||||||
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Shanti Kumari was the naive Indian nurse who arrived in mid 2007. She developed a romance with Scotty (Kiel McNaughton) and ended up marrying him, defying her arranged marriage to Dinesh Jivani (Amin Sheikh). The couple bought a house that was a scene of a murder suicide and Shanti had the house blessed. They ran into financial trouble and Scotty became moody and began to drink when his brother Tai (Xavier Horan) got arrested. Shanti suggested they separate but the two reconciled and Shanti fell pregnant. However she suffered an Ectopic Pregnancy but it was masked by a fever she developed. The misdiagnosis saw Shanti suddenly die, leaving Scotty without a wife nor child.
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