law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  335.Person acquitted on such ground to be detained in safe custody.-
  (1) Whenever the finding states that the
  
  accused person committed the act alleged, the Magistrate or Court before whom
  
  or which the trial has been held, shall, if such act would, but for the incapacity
  
  found, have constituted an offence,-
  (a) order such person to be detained in safe custody in such place and manner
  
  as the Magistrate or Court thinks fit; or
  (b) order such person to be delivered to any relative or friend of such person.
  (2) No order for the detention of the accused in a lunatic asylum shall be made
  
  under clause (a) of sub-section (1) otherwise than in accordance with such
  
  rules as the State Government may have made under the Indian Lunacy Act, 1912
  
  (4 of 1912).
  (3) No order for the delivery of the accused to a relative or friend shall be
  
  made under clause (b) of sub-section (1), except upon the application of such
  
  relative or friend and on his giving security to the satisfaction of the
  
  Magistrate or Court that the person delivered shall-
  (a) be properly taken care of and prevented from doing injury to himself or to
  
  any other person;
  (b) be produced for the inspection of such officer, and at such times and
  
  places, as the State Government may direct.
  (4) The Magistrate or Court shall report to
  
  the State Government the action taken under sub-section (1).