Several inmates within a prison cell inside the Thane Mental Hospital lie forgotten, shunned by family, only to become mere statistics. Often, the inmates have no access to legal redress. Over the past one year, three such inmates have died. Can Mumbai develop a system that such deprived individuals can fall back on? Jupru Patil, Chandra Kumar Lamnic, and ‘Not known Mukha’, all three shared the prison cell of Thane mental hospital for decades and died without being heard by the world outside. At present, 1,400 patients are admitted in Thane Mental Hospital, of which 17 are lodged in the prison cell. Two of them are undertrial patients.

The hospital has 17 patients in the prison cell, out of which two are undertrials