<p class="title">District Principal and Sessions Judge Kadloor Sathyanarayanacharya said he has come across many cases of individuals being deliberately declared as mentally ill as part of a sinister agenda, during his career.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was speaking at a programme organised to mark World Mental Health Day at Government Teacher Education Training Institute premises on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He recollected a case which had come before him while serving as a magistrate from 2002 to 2004 in Mangaluru. A captain of a merchant ship who returned home during the holidays caught his wife with her paramour in a compromising position.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The wife instead of settling for a mutual divorce, conspired with her paramour and got her husband forcefully admitted to a psychiatric ward in a private hospital. The captain somehow got in contact with his advocates and filed a case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“I was shocked when informed about the captain’s fate. Eventually, the captain’s mother appeared before me and took the stand to share details about her son who was kept locked in a ward against his wishes. Finally, the court issued a search warrant and the hospital discharged him immediately. On realising that he was mentally sound, we set him at liberty,” the Judge said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said non one is free from mental aberration. Only the percentage of mental aberration differs from one individual to another, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The judge described District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Ramakrishna Rao as an asset to the society and urged individuals to take an oath on preventing people from committing suicide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">DHO Dr Ramakrishna earlier said counselling can stop suicide. “At the end of the day, mental well-being is the real health,” he said.</p>
<p class="title">District Principal and Sessions Judge Kadloor Sathyanarayanacharya said he has come across many cases of individuals being deliberately declared as mentally ill as part of a sinister agenda, during his career.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was speaking at a programme organised to mark World Mental Health Day at Government Teacher Education Training Institute premises on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He recollected a case which had come before him while serving as a magistrate from 2002 to 2004 in Mangaluru. A captain of a merchant ship who returned home during the holidays caught his wife with her paramour in a compromising position.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The wife instead of settling for a mutual divorce, conspired with her paramour and got her husband forcefully admitted to a psychiatric ward in a private hospital. The captain somehow got in contact with his advocates and filed a case.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“I was shocked when informed about the captain’s fate. Eventually, the captain’s mother appeared before me and took the stand to share details about her son who was kept locked in a ward against his wishes. Finally, the court issued a search warrant and the hospital discharged him immediately. On realising that he was mentally sound, we set him at liberty,” the Judge said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He said non one is free from mental aberration. Only the percentage of mental aberration differs from one individual to another, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The judge described District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Ramakrishna Rao as an asset to the society and urged individuals to take an oath on preventing people from committing suicide.</p>.<p class="bodytext">DHO Dr Ramakrishna earlier said counselling can stop suicide. “At the end of the day, mental well-being is the real health,” he said.</p>