By IANS
Mumbai : A Mumbai court ordered Faisal Khan, brother of Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, to remain in the temporary custody of his father, retired filmmaker Tahir Hussain, for a period of one month after a medical report said his mental condition was not stable.
Metropolitan Magistrate Pankaj Shah of the Bandra Metropolitan Court also ruled that since Faisal appeared to be mentally disturbed as per a medical report submitted to the court, he must report to a local police station every alternate day to mark his presence and undergo a check-up and treatment at the state-run J.J. Hospital in south Mumbai.
In case Faisal’s behaviour was found abnormal during the one-month period, the police were ordered to take him into custody immediately to prevent any untoward incident, the magistrate ruled, and ordered Faisal to appear before the court after a month.
Faisal, 41, suffers from periodic lapses into schizo-affective psychosis, according to the psychiatry department of the J.J. Hospital.
He was produced before the court following a missing-person complaint lodged by his mother Zeenat, sister Nikhat and brother Aamir with the Khar police station on Oct 15.
The next day they filed an application contending that Faisal was mentally unstable and needed to be admitted to hospital for treatment.
However, Faisal, who recorded his statement under the Mental Health Act, contended that he did not suffer from any mental problems. All he wanted was to live alone and start working to make himself financially independent. He had even rented a flat in Chambur, a north-eastern suburb.
He said that he was held captive at Aamir’s Bandra home between February 2005 to January 2006, and in a Bandra clinic where he was forced to consume medicines.
Faisal made it clear that there was no property dispute in the family and if he must live with a relative, he preferred to live with his father and not with Aamir or his mother or sister.
Faisal’s advocate S.A. Vasid told IANS that the controversy appeared to be due to an ego clash between Aamir and his relatives. He said Faisal had acted in a Yash Chopra movie, “Mela”, almost a decade ago and his role was widely appreciated, which ostensibly made Aamir jealous and insecure.
Faisal, who was reported to be missing since Sep 29 and was later found in the nearby hill station of Lonavala, had actually informed the Khar Police of his whereabouts and even expressed readiness to return if required for any purpose, Vasid claimed.