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SC takes note of man held without trial for 38 years
The SC took serious note of media reports of a man in UP being confined to a mental asylum.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday took serious note of media reports of a man in Uttar Pradesh being confined to a mental asylum as an undertrial without trial for 38 years.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice C K Thakker issued notice to the Mulayam Singh Yadav government and the registrar general of the Allahabad High Court asking the latter to come prepared with a report on the case on February 13, the next date of hearing.
The case pertained to one Jagjivan Ram who as a 32-year-old was arrested for allegedly murdering his neighbour's wife in 1968. Before being put to trial, he was found to be mentally unsound and was sent to a mental hospital for treatment at Varanasi.
And the 70-year-old re-surfaced as the mental hospital authorities declared him fit to stand trial and sent him back to police, who at best is clueless about the case against him as time has taken a toll and there are no records of the crime against him.
Ram's case bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Assam's Machal Lalung, who as an undertrial languished in a Tezpur mental hospital for 54 years before his release at the intervention of National Human Rights Commission.
A Bench comprising Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal and Justice C K Thakker issued notice to the Mulayam Singh Yadav government and the registrar general of the Allahabad High Court asking the latter to come prepared with a report on the case on February 13, the next date of hearing.
The case pertained to one Jagjivan Ram who as a 32-year-old was arrested for allegedly murdering his neighbour's wife in 1968. Before being put to trial, he was found to be mentally unsound and was sent to a mental hospital for treatment at Varanasi.
And the 70-year-old re-surfaced as the mental hospital authorities declared him fit to stand trial and sent him back to police, who at best is clueless about the case against him as time has taken a toll and there are no records of the crime against him.
Ram's case bears an uncanny resemblance to that of Assam's Machal Lalung, who as an undertrial languished in a Tezpur mental hospital for 54 years before his release at the intervention of National Human Rights Commission.
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