'10 million Indians are currently living with dementia, and the number is expected to double by 2036.'
The high court said it is the bounden duty of the state to take care of the lives of all its citizens, and asked the authorities to take adequate care of a woman convict, suffering from schizophrenia, and such other patients.
A Delhi police official said on reaching the spot, the police team found a person who was later identified as Sachin, a resident of Nathupura who has been detained in connection with the incident.
A local court in Delhi on Wednesday asked Delhi Police to carry out a medical test of the mental health of Harvinder Singh, who had slapped Union Minister Sharad Pawar, and submit the report to it by December 5.
Alert: M Phil Clinical Psychology from the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, for the 2004-2006 academic session.
The mystery over incidents of chopping of braids in Delhi and other states continued as more such cases were reported.
The Apex court bench of Chief Justice P Sathasivam, Justice RM Lodha, Justice HL Dattu and Justice SJ Mukhopadyaya, while commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment, referred to its January 21, 2014 verdict which said that inordinate, unexplained or unreasonable delay in deciding mercy petition was dehumanizing to death row convict and was a ground for commuting death sentence to life imprisonment.
The Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it has "no problem" with commutation of death sentence of Khalistani terrorist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar to life term and the petition in this regard has to be allowed in view of the court's verdict that delay in deciding mercy pleas can be a ground for such relief.
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