Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 63 · Decided 5 February 2002
In Re: Dea TH of 25 Chained Inmates in Asylum Fire in Tamil Nadu v. .
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 63 · [2002] 1 S.C.R. 839
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 334/2001
- Decided
- 5 February 2002
- Bench
- M.B. SHAH, B.N. AGRAWAL, ARIJIT PASAYAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
B Mental Health Act, 1987: Ss. 2(1), 2(q) 3,4, and 5-Mentally ill persons-Treatment and care­ Fire in a mental asylum-25 mentally ill persons housed in the said mental ... asylum and chained to poles/beds charred to death-Suo motu action by C Supreme Court-It was noticed that provisions of the failure on part of the Central/ State Governments/Union Territories to implement the Act and other laws­ Directiom given by Supreme Court to State Governments/Union Territories, inter nlia, to undertake district wise survey of registered/unregistered D institutions providing mental
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