NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Thursday came to the rescue of leprosy patients who had been eased out of government-run shelter homes due to de-criminalisation of begging. Justice Vibhu Bakhru, in an interim order, asked the Delhi government to accommodate all such leprosy patients out in the streets after they completed their sentence for the offence of begging in its two shelter homes.
The court said till the time government doesn't frame a policy in this regard, the patients should be permitted to stay and receive shelter.
HC's interim direction came on a leprosy afflicted patient moving the court last week seeking re-entry of leprosy and TB affected patients into government run shelter homes.