High Court pulls up Telangana government for halting tests

HYDERABAD: A bench of Hyderabad High Court has pulled up the Telangana government for halting Covid-19 testing regardless of the courtroom’s repeated directives to extend the numbers of tests when there was a spike in coronavirus infections within the state.

On Wednesday, the two-judge bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy warned that it’ll provoke contempt proceedings towards the state government if it’s not happy with its clarification on why its orders weren’t adopted.

The state government has been given time till July 17 to submit its reply.

The bench regarded the perspective of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government headed by chief minister Ok Chandrasekhar Rao as violation of the Basic Proper to dwell. This comes days after the state government stated it had discovered issues with the testing protocols, human sources, infrastructure and an infection management measures at some personal labs the place testing for the an infection was being accomplished.