The Telangana High Court on Friday served notice on the State government over a news report published by The Hindu on decaying of bodies in the mortuary of Gandhi hospital; the court had earlier taken the matter up suo motu as a public interest litigation (PIL) petition.
A Bench of Chief Justice (CJ) Alok Aradhe and Justice Laxmi Narayana Alishetty, hearing the plea, expressed displeasure over the State government’s slackness in the preservation of bodies at Gandhi hospital mortuary. The newspaper report had stated that bodies kept in the mortuary were decomposing owing to an adequate number of cold-storage boxes. Out of the 60 such boxes, only 25 worked.
The Chief Justice expressed his displeasure when the government pleader sought four weeks to file a counter affidavit in the matter.
