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| Mentally ill abandoned persons face winter chill | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 27: Minimum amenities of equality and getting Roti, Kapda aur Makaan is the fundamental right of a person guaranteed as per Constitution of India to be taken care of a person who is mentally distarded and living the life in an open space under harsh chilly weather with no one to attend the abandoned one. While talking to Early Times a local resident of R.S.Pura Tehsil, Subash Chander informed that quite a number of mentally challenged persons are seen loitering about in R.S.Pura Town and Miran Sahib and some of them continue to be there for the last over ten years with no initiative by the local administration for their appropriate disposal required as per Mentally Health Act of 1987 which enshrines in terms of Section 25 of the Act entitled "Powers and Duties of Police Officers in respect of certain mentally ill persons" that every officer of a Police Station may take or cause to be taken into protection any person found wandering at large within the limits of the Station whom he has reason to believe to be so mentally ill as to be incapable of take care of himself and shall take or cause to be taken into protection any person within the limits of his Station whom he has reason to believe to be dangerous by reason of mental illness. The strength and spirit of this Act manifests that such persons for whatever reason are to be treated as as human beings to protect their legitimate right and not to be left un-cared for like animals, although they too need sympathetic consideration. As per a document available with the Early Times, one Om Parkash Khajauria, a Human Right Activist, narrating woeful tale of these persons informed that he approached the Sub Divisional Magistrate R.S.Pura some time back apprising him about mentally retarded persons roaming in Miran Sahib and R.S.Pura who through an endorsement of December 2014 directed the concerned Station House Officers of the area under Section 23 and 24 Mental Health Act of 1987 to immediately get such mentally challenged persons shifted to Psychiatric Hospital Jammu for providing them medical aid so that they get suitably rehabilitated and come back on the track of living a mental-free and honorable human life. He further informed that except two such ladies wandering in Miran Sahib who were got shifted to Mental Hospital Jammu some time back, ironically no further disposal of other persons was made who are still seen moving like animals in open without shelter from rain, wind, sun facing fury of adverse climate conditions changing with the change of weather, further told, adding that it ought to be a spontaneous act on the part of concerned authorities to do the needful on human grounds instead of waiting for the locals to point out propelling them to take required action as per Mental Health Act 1987. |
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