Supreme Court of India

Rakesh Chandra Narayan v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [1988] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 306
Bench Ranganath Misra J.
Decided 27 September 1988

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that if the hospital is transformed into a better one, just as the hospital run by NIMHANS at Bangalore, the quality of the hospital would improve and the patients would have the benefit of modern scientific treatment.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

c Constitution of India, 1950-Article 32-Public Interest Litiga­ tion-Mental Hospital Ranchi-Chief Judicial Magistrate's report­ Considered-Committee of Management appointed for the hospital. " letter petition in regard to the Mental Hospital at Ranchi was considered as a pnblic interest application under Article 32 of the Con- stitntion, and the Conrt called npon the State of Bihar to me its connter affidavit. At the same time, the Conrt directed the Chief Jndicial Magistrate to visit the hospital and snbmit a report about the conditions prevailing there. The hospital was in the sole

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