Chandigarh, May 31 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has put senior citizens' admission to Group Home, Sector 31 on hold till further order and directed the UT administration to raise awareness about the facility meant for mentally ill persons.

The UT administration on April 28 had decided to open half of 80 seats in Group Home for senior citizens due to the low number of admissions from mentally ill persons in the facility.

Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) titled Jatinder Maan and others versus UT Chandigarh and others, the division bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and judge Sanjeev Berry, by an interim order, directed the UT administration to widely spread awareness about the facility for three months and give at least a...