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President of Haqdar committee must be made supervisory panel member Committee agrees to donate two acres and bear the cost of construction MADURAI: The Madras High Court on Thursday directed the State government to extend full cooperation to the Erwadi Dargah Haqdar management committee in establishing a rehabilitation centre for the mentally challenged. A Division Bench of Justices Elipe Dharma Rao and R. Subbiah gave the directive, while disposing of a public interest litigation petition filed last year by a resident of Erwadi in Ramanathapuram district. He died a few months ago. The judges also directed the Social Welfare Secretary and the Collector to take stern action against any violation of human rights, in any manner, to best protect the safety and interests of the mentally challenged. The Collector was further directed to include the president of the Haqdar committee as a member in the supervisory committee constituted, pursuant to the writ, to oversee the implementation of rehabilitation measures. The Bench said the Haqdar committee had come forward to donate two acres adjacent to the dargah, besides bearing the entire cost of construction of the rehabilitation home. V. Sitharanjandas, counsel for the petitioner, had claimed that hundreds of people from across the State visited the dargah in the hope of getting their mentally challenged relatives cured through prayers. In the long run, they lost hope and abandoned the sufferers at the dargah. Many of them, he said, were chained to pillars or trees, and they lived in the open in the most unhygienic conditions, since the government had ordered the closure of all private homes after the death of 28 mentally ill people in a fire in August 2001. In January, a Division Bench headed by Justice F.M. Ibrahim Kalifulla directed Ramanathapuram Principal District and Sessions Judge J.V. Raj to inspect the dargah and file a report before the High Court. The report said the mentally challenged people were being treated “worse than animals” near the dargah. He suggested that the government establish a rehabilitation centre, similar to the Banyan in Chennai.
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