Seeking an amicable settlement of the row between Kerala and Karnataka, the Supreme Court on Friday told the Centre to discuss the matter with the respective states and formulate parameters for passage of patients for urgent medical treatment, according to several media reports. “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, according to a report in Indian Express. Coronavirus Outbreak: Supreme Court seeks Centres intervention for settlement of Karnataka-Kerala border battle ile image of the Supreme Court of India. AP A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta, which took up the plea for hearing through video conferencing asked the Chief Secretaries of Kerala and Karnataka to hold discussions with Union Health Secretary for amicable settlement of the issue and decide on parameters to be maintained in case of health emergencies. The top court told the Kerala government not to precipitate the issue of opening of borders till the matter was further heard. It observed that in the present scenario, there cannot be an indiscriminate opening of borders. Karnataka's advocate general Prabhuling Navadgi, who appeared for the state, said that the order of Kerala High Court passed on 1 April, was without any jurisdiction. The apex court also separately heard a writ petition by Kasaragod MP Rajmohan Unnithan for an order to forthwith open the state border, The Hindu reported. Unnithan, represented by advocates Haris Beeran and Pallavi Pratap, urged the court to issue an ex-parte stay on the operation of the blockade imposed by Karnataka with its border states, saying the blockade is said Karnataka’s blockade is “ill-planned and dangerous” and had led to the loss of life, as per the report.