The Telangana High Court today expressed its anger with the state government for not following its orders to conduct more Covid-19 detection tests in the state.
It warned the state government that it would consider its failure to increase testing as contempt of court and initiate action against the officials of health department of the state.
It also warned the state government that it would initiate contempt of court proceedings against it if it issued false media bulletins.
It said that it would hold the Principal Secretary of the health department and the Director of Public Health of the state as the respondents in the contempt proceedings.
The division bench of the HC also expressed its anger that its orders to hold Covid-19 tests on dead bodies were also not being implemented, and that the state government was not conducting random tests on the people of the state, either. It added that a lack of supply of PPE kits had caused Covid-19 infections among the doctors of the state.
Responding to the angry remarks of the HC, the Advocate General of the state said that the government had already appealed against the orders of the HC in the Supreme Court of India.
This prompted the HC to state that its orders should be implemented until a decision by the apex court.
It asked the government to submit a report before June 17.
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