Rehabilitation, refers to a process aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric or social functional levels. [Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (w)]
By rehabilitation what is meant is not to provide shelter alone. The real purpose of rehabilitation can be achieved only if those who are sought to be rehabilitated are provided with shelter, food and other necessary amenities of life. Providing medical facilities would come within the concept of the word 'rehabilitation', Collector of 24 Parganas v. Lalit Mohan Mullick, AIR 1986 SC 622 (625): (1986) 2 SCC 138.
The process of seeking to improve a criminal's character and onlook so that he or she can function in society without committing other crimes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn
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