Relatives of the inmates had put them up at the facility after paying anything between Rs 5000 and Rs 10,000 per month. Relatives of the inmates had put them up at the facility after paying anything between Rs 5000 and Rs 10,000 per month. An illegal psychiatric rehabilitation facility operating as an ‘old-age home’ was busted and over 70 people — many of them mentally ill — rescued by Rachakonda police Thursday night. According to the police, the facility was unhygienic and unhealthy and the inmates were inhumanly confined, with some of them chained. Relatives of the inmates had put them up at the facility after paying anything between Rs 5000 and Rs 10,000 per month.

Source: Indian Express January 24, 2020 13:18 UTC