By Selina Lum

A LAWYER sent to the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) for three weeks of psychiatric observation failed in a High Court bid yesterday to have himself released.

Shackled and handcuffed, M. Ravi spent more than an hour arguing his case from the dock, during which he revealed that an IMH psychiatrist diagnosed him as bipolar.

Ravi, 39, who often referred to himself in the third person, claimed his continued detention at IMH was unlawful.

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