Section 25. (1) Every officer in charge of a police station, who has Season to believe that any person within

(4) If such relative or any other persox is legalTy bound to iaintain the mentally ill person, the Magistrate may, by order, require the relative or the other person to take proper care of such mentally ill person and where such relative or other person wilfully neglects to comply with the said order, he shall be punishable with fine which may eaend to two thousand rupees, - L U@f,!lB87] (2) Any private person who has reason to believe that any person is mentally ill and is not under proper care and control, or is ill-treated or neglected by any relative or other person having charge of such mentally ill person, may report the fact to the Magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the mentally ill person resides. (3) If it appears `to` the Magistrate, on the report of a police offcer, or on the report or information derived from any other person, or otherwise that any mentally ill person within the local limits of his juxisdiction is not under proper care and control, or is ill-treated or neglected by any relative or other person having the charge of such mentalIy ill person, the Magistrate may cause the mentally ill person to be produced before him, and summon such relative or other person who is, or who ought to be in charge of, such mentally ill person. 25. (1) Every officer in charge of a police station, who has Season to believe that any person within the limits of his station is mentally ill and is not under proper care and control, or is ill-treated or neglected by any relative or other person having charge of such mentally ill person, shall forthwith report the fact to the Magistrate withili' the ldcal limits of whose jurisdiction the mentally ill person resides. > I , Q5) g & & b siSJ `~~.pr~n!~I@g~11y~r3s~fid` ~~to~~r~gilrpthi~w C l R ~ ~ ~ e ~ ~ & 2 1 y ~ i l l person, or;Ml~heripeasion -1eg~ll'y &mad Botrnaintziin the! rnqnkaHy 3Bl %person refuses or neglects to maintain such person, or if, for any' other rea- `son,` the Magistrate thinks fit so to do, he may cause the mentally ill person to be produced before him and, without prejudice to any action that may be taken under sub-section ( 4 ) , proceed in the manner provided in section 24 as if such person had been produced b e f ~ r e him under sub-section (3) of secf5on 23. 1 x ,C.--F,uflke~ - p~auis2ons negardjpg admission wcl detention of cqrtain fnentdly 1 ill -person$# 26. If any District Coyrt holdipg an inquisition under Ghgpter `VI` Aflmission regapding any person wl~o is found .to be mentally ill is of~.opinion that as' it is necessary `so` to do in the interests of such persm, it mag, by order, aft& direct hhat,t~uah ~person~,sMJ : b ~ admitted-and ,kept as ad' in$~tient in a inquisition. -*mychigtr&c* hwpif a1 -or psyohiat~ic nursing home : and every SU&J order may be varied from time to time or revoked by ,th6 District* @Bdr%. Aflmission as' in~atient aft& inquisition. '27. An order Wder section 30 of the Prisdners Act,, `$00,` 1 * pr yndrr section 144 of the Air Force Act, 1950. or under sebtion 145f'of the Army ,,+ct, 1.%p, .or .~q$er gectian 143 .or- section 144 of ,the Navy Act, 1957, or ,,wdgr qptipn$W.or seqtion 33151 of thePCode of Criminal Procda~e, `1973,` ;&re@ng, the reception .of a mentally ill priscmer into `any` ,~ychiatric prh~qj tfl. `ar,` psyabiatxic ,nuq$ng `- W e ,` shall be sufficient mthor;ity :for the admission of such person in such hospital or, as the case mqy be,,such nursing home or any other psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing +home 40 whiqh `suoh` person may be lawfplly tlr$nsferrdd for detehtion therein. Admission and detention of mentally ill priso- WI'.