Abstract
Various laws have been implemented and amended for safeguarding the individuals suffering from mental ailments. The latest addition is the Mental Healthcare Act 2017 which tries to answer several lacunas in previous editions. The act tries to give legal solicitude with much needed precedence to rights of such patients. This review article is an attempt to go through the MHCA 2017 and its predecessor act, the Mental Health Act 1987 to discuss different modifications incorporated. This article tries to simply discuss the practical aspects of this act and the medicolegal perspective which is very much important for a practicing physician.
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