The apex court told Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar, representing the Centre, that the government “cannot allow a person to be kept” in a mental asylum or a nursing home after he or she is fully cured of the ailment.
“They have to be brought back to civil society. You will have to frame a policy,” the bench said.
“It is very easily achievable. You give us a model scheme. We will then put it to the state governments and ask them. Give us a scheme,” the court told the Centre.
