Telangana High Court to hear suo moto PIL on government, quarantine centres

Hyderabad: A division bench of the Telangana High Court will hear a suo moto case of Public Interest Litigation (PIL) regarding the pathetic conditions in the Quarantine Centres in Hyderabad, based on a news item published recently in English Daily.

The Quarantine Centres located in Hyderabad to house the international air passengers for a mandatory 14 days has resulted in revealing the state despair of such establishments.

The Pathetic Conditions in the quarantine centres that two or three people are put in one room, poor in hygienic conditions like there are bed bugs, cockroaches and mosquitoes plaguing the rooms.

Poor service by the government and lack of basic attention to their needs, lack of basic amenities like defunct toilet flushes, lack of running water, inadequate supply of drinking water, whereby defeating the very purpose of the State's laudable object of the international air passengers to assess their health condition.

After going through the contents of the news item, Justice P Naveen Rao of the Telangana High Court wrote a letter to the Chief Justice requesting him to take up the news item as a public interest litigation.

Responding to the request, Telangana High Court Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan, treated the news item as a taken up PIL case seeking directions to the respondent authorities to provide adequate amenities in the quarantine centres.

The matter may come up for hearing on Monday.