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Mentally Ill Prisoner

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Mentally ill prisoner, means a mentally ill person for whose detention in, or removal to, a psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, jail or other place of safe custody, an order referred to in s. 27 has been made. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(m)]

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