Case Law Analysis
|Uttarakhand High Court
Detention without dual expert cert under Section 89 MHC Act, 2017 unlawful | Private mental health facility : Uttarakhand HC
The Uttarakhand HC held that detention without dual expert certification under Section 89 of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 is unlawful and ordered petitioner’s release. It also clarified that addiction alone is not mental illness under the Act.