Section 92
Absence without leave or discharge.
The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017
About this Act
An Act to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such persons during delivery of mental healthcare and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
If any person to whom section 103 applies absents
himself without leave or without discharge from the mental health establishment, he shall be taken into
protection by any Police Officer at the request of the medical officer or mental health professional incharge
of the mental health establishment and shall be sent back to the mental health establishment
immediately.