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New Delhi, May 22, 2023 (PPI-OT): The Indian Supreme Court has directed the authorities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir to transfer a Dutch detainee, patient of paranoid schizophrenia, from the Central Prison, Srinagar, to a New Delhi hospital for specialised treatment, a facility not available to Kashmiri jailed patients.
The order came after advocate Rohan Garg submitted on behalf of petitioner Richard De Wit (53) that the detainee had been in jail for a decade since his arrest in April 2013 in Srinagar in a murder case. His medical condition was deteriorating as no proper medical treatment for the disease was available in the Srinagar jail, Garg told the court.
The Bench, however, said: “It (his shifting from the Srinagar jail to the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences) is on a condition that after the psychological condition of the petitioner/detenues improves, he shall be shifted to the Central Prison, Srinagar.”
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