Section 72, The Criminal Procedure Act, 2024

(1) The Minister may, from time to time by order directthe transfer of a criminal lunatic detained in a mental hospital, correctional center or other suitable place of safe custody and the criminal lunatic shall accordingly be received and detained in such a place of safe custody, to which he is so transferred. (2) The Minister may by order absolutely discharge a criminal lunatic and may also discharge a criminal lunatic on such conditions as to the duration of the discharge or otherwise as the Minister may think fit. (3) Where a criminal lunatic has been discharged conditionally under subsection (2), if any of the conditions of such discharge appear to the Minister to be broken or the conditional discharge is revoked, the Minister may by order direct him to be taken into custody and to be conveyed to some mental hospital, correctional center or other place of safe custody named in the order, and he may thereupon be taken in like manner as if he had escaped from the mental hospital, correctional center or other place of such custody and shall be received and detained therein as if he had been removed thereto in pursuance of this Act.