Magistrate Duty Bound To Inform Person With Mental Illness Is Entitled For Free Legal Aid, P&H High Court Calls For Judicial Officers' Training

Observing that every Magistrate, Police Officer and person in-charge of custodial institutions is entitled to inform person suffering with mental illness is entitled for free legal aid as per Mental Health Care Act, the Punjab & Haryana High Court called for judicial officers' training.Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry noted, “no orientation programme for making...