Mentally Disabled Person Is Still A Human Being, His Dignity Can't Be Violated: SC [Read Order]

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4 Jan 2019 2:42 PM IST

“This is not only inhuman and violative of rights of such persons under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, as even a person suffering from mental disability is still a human being and his dignity cannot be violated.”

While hearing a writ petition raising issues about patients suffering from mental illness being kept in chains in an asylum, the Supreme Court has observed that even a person suffering from mental disability is still a human being and his dignity cannot be violated.The bench of Justice AK Sikri and Justice S Abdul Nazeer was hearing a writ petition in which petitioner Gaurav Kumar Bansal...

Mentally Disabled Person Is Still A Human Being, His Dignity Can't Be Violated: SC [Read Order]

ashok kini

“This is not only inhuman and violative of rights of such persons under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, as even a person suffering from mental disability is still a human being and his dignity cannot be violated.”

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