New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) A court here has dismissed theplea of an octogenarian man to direct Delhi Police to take his39-year-old son to a government hospital for treatment of hismental illness.
Metropolitan Magistrate Anjani Mahajan rejected theapplication of Prabhu Dayal, seeking assistance of the policeto admit his son to the psychiatric ward of Delhi government'sInstitute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS).
In his plea, filed through advocate Gaurav Kumar Bansal,Dayal said his son was mentally disturbed and his health wasworsening day by day.
The court rejected the plea as there were no medicalcertificates to prove the case, Bansal said, claiming that theson had destroyed the reports after suffering a mental attack.
"There is a probability that if not given propertreatment and medical facilities, my son may harm himself orany other person in the family," the applicant said.
He said that his son was under medication from 2011 to2013 and his health was improving.
However, on one occasion he had a severe mental attackand he destroyed all his medical documents includingprescriptions and diagnosis reports which explained his exactmental health, he claimed.
He also stopped taking medicines and refused to visithospital, the father said.
The application sought grant of an order for taking theson into proper care and guidance of psychiatric ward and adirection to the SHO of Malviya Nagar police station toprovide assistance. PTI AGZMN.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.