The services include withdrawal from all routine and emergency services. Though the doctors had announced about the strike in the morning, they called off the same by the evening.
Sri Lanka is going through one of the worst crises of its history. Food has become scarce, prices have shot through the roof, and long power cuts have turned the lives of ordinary Sri Lankans upside down.
"The plea has no merit. We are not inclined," the bench of the Apex Court, led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana said, in its order today.