Unsound mind is often said to be a disqualification (to vote, to hold public office etc.) Certain Acts of recent origin still mentions the insensitive term ínsanity'. Formerly, when Indian Lunacy Act 1912 was in force, the cout had a role in certifiying on the health or lack of it of mind of the person in question. The Act has since been replaced by another Act which in turn has been replaced in 2017 with Mental Healthcare Act. The latter doesn't mention any procedure of such certification by the court by a passing mention has it thus:
(5) The determination of a person's mental illness shall alone not imply or be taken to mean that the person is of unsound mind unless he has been declared as such by a competent court. (Mental Healthcare Act., 2017 Section 3, sub-section 5)
This clause reads antithetical to the spirit of the Act. Anyway, do courts nowadays certify insanity?
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