30-Dec-2012
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Two Town police seem to be in the news for all the wrong
reasons these days. Even as they are grappling with allegations of the
custodial death of Bura Srinivas, mentally-ill persons roaming at will in their
station limits are now driving them around the bend.
The in-charge chairman of District Legal Services Authority and metropolitan
session judge Venkata Krishnayya has ordered the personnel of the Two Town
police station to pick up 15 mentally-ill persons, including two women, who are
roaming freely within the police station limits and hand them over to the
mental hospital for proper medical care. The judge gave orders following a
petition filed by Visakhapatnam Civil Liberties Union (VCLU) president NH Akbar
urging the court to provide them medical care as they might hurt themselves or
endanger the lives of others. Akbar, an advocate by profession, had conducted a
survey in the Two Town police limits and had found that 15 mentally ill persons
were roaming the streets.
"To see that such persons get proper medical care is also one of the
responsibilities of the civil liberties wings. That's why our organisation has
filed a petition", Akbar said. In his petition, he included the city police
commissioner, station house officer of Two Town police station and the second
chief metropolitan magistrate of Visakhapatnam as respondents.
The mentally ill persons are eligible for proper medical care under Section 12
of the Human Rights Act, 12 (d) of Legal Services Authorities Act 1987, apart
from the Mental Health Act. With the court's order in force, the Two Town
police officials have now hit the roads to nab the mentally ill persons.
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-12-30/visakhapatnam/36063919_1_mentally-ill-persons-mentally-ill-mental-health-act
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