Batting for an amicable settlement of the row between Karnataka and Kerala over the closure of roads linking Kasaragod district to Mangaluru, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to discuss the matter with the states and formulate parameters for passage of patients for urgent medical treatment.
“We direct the Union of India and the States of Karnataka and Kerala to confer immediately and formulate the parameters for passage of patients for urgent medical treatment at the interstate border at Talapadi,” said a bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta. The bench took up via video conferencing an appeal against the Kerala High Court order directing the opening of roads so that patients from Kasaragod can access emergency medical care facilities in Mangaluru.
