All mental homes of this type were closed on 13 August 2001, and more than 500 inmates were placed under the care of the
Government of India. As per
Supreme Court directions, a commission headed by N. Ramdas was set up to enquire into these deaths. The commission recommended that care of mentally ill people is to be improved, that anybody wishing to set up a mental home be required to obtain a license, and that all inmates be unchained. In 2007, the owner of the Moideen Badusha Mental Home for the Mentally Challenged, his wife and two relatives were sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a magistrate Court. ==References==