Hearing a PIL, a division bench comprising Chief Justice M Y Eqbal and Justice A Arumughaswamy sought to know the steps taken by the state government to ensure cleanliness in its hospitals.
Advocate General A Navaneethakrishnan sought time to file a detailed counter affidavit following which the court adjourned the matter by four weeks.
The PIL, filed in the wake of the death of the infant on August 26, sought a direction to the state government to issue proper directions to all government and private hospitals in the state to keep premises of hospitals neat and exterminate pests and animals like dogs, cats and rodents and contamination through them.
The state government has suspended nine persons, including two doctors, in connection with disfigurement of the dead infant, reportedly by rats.