A sessions court here today ordered officials to admit a mentally challenged person, accused of causing the death of a man in 2015, to the Government Institute of Mental Health in Chennai.
Principal District and Sessions Judge A Kayalvizhi also ordered the family of A Balamurugan to pay a fine of Rs 10,100 which would be paid to the kin of the deceased.
Balamurugan was staying near Erwadi Durgah in the district, where large number of mentally challenged persons are brought by their families with the belief that they would get cured.
He allegedly hit Abdul Nazer, a mentally-challenged person from Kerala, with an object in a sudden fit of anger. Nazer died in a hospital later without responding to treatment.
Erwadi police registered a case against Balamurugan.
Taking into account that he was mentally challenged, the Judge directed the officials to move him to the Chennai hospital.
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