Rules to standardise de-addiction centres notified : AAP govt tells HC

New Delhi: The Aam Admi Party government on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that it has notified the rules for regulating the standards for de-addiction centres operating in the national capital. 

The submission was made before bench of justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel which asked the central government to formulate the norms with regard to obtaining consent from the patient to be admitted in such a centre. 

The Delhi government told the court that the rules were notified on Tuesday. 

Taking note of the submission, the bench disposed of the pleas before it regarding the functioning of de-addiction centres in the city. 

The bench had on August 23 directed that the rules be notified by September 19. 

The high court had been looking into the issue after a habeas corpus petition was filed by the father and brother of a man, who was allegedly illegally detained at a de-addiction centre in the city, where he was admitted by his wife and children on the pretext that he was an alcoholic. 

It had earlier said de-addiction centres should not be used to detain someone without his or her consent under the guise of rehabilitation. 
The court had, in November 2017, ordered that such centres running illegally in the national capital be immediately shut down. 

It had also noted that "unwanted elders are dumped" at places that operate in the guise of old-age homes.