The National Court today ordered the Commissioner of the Correctional Service to repatriate eight psychiatric detainees from Bomana to their home provinces.
All these detainees were transferred from various towns in the country to get treatment at the Laloki Psychiatric Hospital.
The court today ordered the CS Commissioner to repatriate eight of the detainees on or before November 30.
Failure to repatriate one of the detainees listed for repatriation will result in the Commissioner being charged with contempt of court.
Justice Panuel Mogish issued the orders after the Correctional Service officers at the institute updated his court of the detainees' records of time served and treatment progress of each patient.
Two females are among those eight detainees whose repatriation was ordered by the court.
Counsel representing the detainees from the Public Solicitors office, Jeffery Mesa filed affidavits before the court on behalf of the detainees who were kept against their will after the completion of their treatment.
One of the detainees was transferred from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and spent four years, nine months in custody at Bomana after he was discharged on January 20, 2011 at the completion of his treatment at the Laloki Psychiatric Hospital.
Another was a woman who spent two years, three months in custody at Bomana after she was discharged from Laloki.
From the 22 detainees who appeared in court on Monday, six detainees had cases before the National Court.
These six were cleared and fit for repatriation including two who had cases before the district courts.
Two detainees will be kept for further examination after they were identified as relapse cases.
Four will need the Correctional Service to report back to the court on the calculation of their time served.
Eight detainees had no records with the Correctional Service and the court. These will return to court next week Wednesday.