The court also imposed a cost of Rs 10,000 each on the two and the Member-Secretary of Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA) and directed them to file the counter-affidavits within three weeks.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana, hearing a PIL, said urgency needs to be shown in the matter as safety of patients in hospitals in case of evacuation becomes necessary.
"We are left with no option but to call for the personal presence of the Health Secretary, the Member Secretary CMDA and the Secretary Medical Council of India in the court on the next date of hearing (March 7) with records," the bench said.
The PIL, filed by a social activist Jawaharlal Shanmugam, submitted that there were several multi-specialty hospitals, both government and private, functioning in high-rise buildings and most of them lacked ramp facility.