Section 142: Maintenance (palan poshan) and care of (herbichar) incompetent or quasi-competent person

1) The guardian shall make arrangements for the maintenance, health, education, entertainment and care of an incompetent or quasi-competent person under his or her guardianship from the property belonging to such a person, if any, and if such property is not available, from the property belonging to the guardian himself or herself.

2) The arrangements for the maintenance, health, education, entertainment and care of an incompetent or quasi-competent person, pursuant to sub-section (1), shall be made from the movable property belonging to such a person, if any, and where there is no such movable property or where arrangements for the maintenance, health, education, entertainment and care cannot be made from that property, his or her immovable property may be sold for that purpose with the prior permission of the court.

Provided that it is not required to obtain permission of the court to sell the immovable property where a person in the priority order under sub-section (1) of Section 136 is the guardian.