State’s Duty To Ensure Extra Care For Persons in Their Custody Having Suicidal Tendencies: Punjab & Haryana High Court

Case: Court on Its Own Motion v. State of Punjab

Coram: Justice G.S Sandhawalia and Justice Harpreet Kaur Jeewan

Case No.: CWP-20359-2013 (O&M)

Court Observation: “It was the duty of the State as he was in their custody to ensure that even if he had suicidal tendencies, sufficient care should have been extended towards him and an extra watch should have been kept so that he would not have been successful in his attempts.”

sensitivity of the attendants has to be enhanced as to the manner in which the patients are to be treated. Apparently on account of the lack of sensitivity and the behavior the end result has been that one of the patients who was suffering on account of various family problems has committed suicide in the bathroom of the de-addiction center

…it is for the education department to ensure that the syllabus provides for the harms of drug usage, which could be incorporated in the early years of education… so that students are well versed and educated about the wrongdoing that they would be indulging in if they experiment with drugs.

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State’s Duty To Ensure Extra Care, Suicidal Tendencies