Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
(1) While passing an order for detention under section 330, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, the trying court should state whether the accused insane would ordinarily be within the class of persons in whose favour the court may pass order under Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. (2) A court making an order of detention under section 330, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, should inform the Superintendent of the Mental Hospital in which the insane is to be detained of the maximum period of imprisonment prescribed by law for the crime with which the insane has been charged.