Duty of State to address special needs of ‘mentally ill’ remand prisoners: Madras HC
The Hindu
Section 20 (1) of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 states that every person with mental illness should have a right to live with dignity, the judge said
Time has come to conduct awareness programmes in police training academies and judicial academies to sensitise the officers concerned with regard to mental health issues, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has observed.
Coming across a case where a prisoner was suffering from bipolar disorder, Justice G. R. Swaminathan observed that it is time the State revised the protocol regarding medical examination of the arrestees. The proforma for health screening of prisoners must contain a specific column as regards the mental well-being of the arrestee. The column cannot be filled up after posing formal questions to the arrestee. The duty doctor must observe independently and gather the inputs.
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