https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299725 Prolonged detention of prisoners who had regained sanity, or whose further prosecution had become futile, was treated as incompatible with personal liberty, and their pending charges were quashed with directions for immediate release and incidental travel and subsistence support. For prisoners still found to be of unsound mind, immediate release was declined, but continued safe custody was made conditional on periodic psychiatric examination, reporting to the District Judge, and release as soon as sanity was restored, with State-funded short-term maintenance and travel expenses. The Court also left open the question of compensation for illegal detention for further hearing. en-us Tue, 11 May 1982 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 27 Dec 2021 15:54:36 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299725 Prolonged detention of prisoners who had regained sanity, or whose further prosecution had become futile, was treated as incompatible with personal liberty, and their pending charges were quashed with directions for immediate release and incidental travel and subsistence support. For prisoners still found to be of unsound mind, immediate release was declined, but continued safe custody was made conditional on periodic psychiatric examination, reporting to the District Judge, and release as soon as sanity was restored, with State-funded short-term maintenance and travel expenses. The Court also left open the question of compensation for illegal detention for further hearing. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 11 May 1982 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299725