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Mentally ill persons are born with same set of rights, as we have their physical or mental illness do not take away their valuable rights, rather, they are in need of more Civic rights and privileges so that they can stand together with normal ones. Disability is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community on an equal level with others due to physical and social barriers. It includes physically handicapped as well as mentally retarded person sub-normal mental capacity, whether arising from innate mental defect or deficiency or from mental disorder or illness, has long presented legal problems of care and custody, of responsibility of such persons rights of their capacity for legal act, of responsibility for wrongs and crimes and liability to punishment. In India, awareness about mental health issues remained dangerously low, sensitiveness in human being is decreasing day by day.