Punjab and Haryana High Court (File photo). The Punjab and Haryana High Court Wednesday put on hold the admission process for senior citizens at the Group Home in Chandigarh’s Sector 31-C, observing that adequate awareness may not have been created among persons with mental illness for availing the facility. The Bench directed the Union Territory Administration to continue the awareness drive for the next three months and thereafter keep the application window open for at least two months for mentally ill patients seeking admission. Hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) titled ‘Jatinder Maan and another versus UT Chandigarh and others’, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry noted that the UT Administration had decided on April 28, 2026, to allow sharing of the Sector 31-C Group Home with paid senior citizens due to low occupancy by patients suffering from mental illness.…