A bench of justices K S Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra passed the order after taking note of a letter written by the girls' mother expressing apprehension that if the twins were air lifted to Delhi for treatment it could pose a threat to their lives.
She submitted in the letter that the girls' condition had deteriorated about four years ago after they had been brought to a private hospital in the national capital. The girls were subsequently moved back to Patna.
The letter written in Hindi also urged the apex court to direct the government to sanction monthly maintenance amount for the 16-year-old conjoined twins Saba and Farah Saleem
Responding to the plea, the apex court asked the medical team constituted by it to visit Patna and file a report before it and posted the matter after three weeks.
In pursuant to the apex court's direction, the Centre had earlier constituted a 3-member expert medical team comprising two paediatricians from AIIMS, Minoo Bajpai and A K Bisoi, besides Dr Mukul Verma of Apollo Hospital.
The court's order had come on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition by Aarushi Dhasmana, a second-year law student from Pune, through counsel Ravi Prakash Gupta, seeking medical aid for the girls on the ground that the two grown up girls born as twins joined at the head are undergoing immense pain and are unable to even sleep due to consistent acute pain.
