Kochi: Kerala High Court on Friday observed that presently COVID-19 prevention activities are the most important matter and no intervention from court will be made in obstructing it.

While hearing the petitions demanding cancellation of Sprinklr deal, HC said that it would have inspected in detail the contract signed by Kerala Government with US firm Sprinklr over handling COVID-19 patients' data.

However, the division bench under Justice Devan Ramachandran noted its disagreement on some of the arguments made by state government at the court.

Government argued that if a consent letter is sought from the individual over handing over his/her data, there could be an anti-government campaign in the state. This would make it difficult in collecting data for people, additional advocate general K K Raveendranath said at the court.

But the court didn’t accept this argument and strictly ordered to collect the consent letter before using the data.

Kerala High Court in an interim order directed the state government to anonymize all data that have been collected and collated so far and allow Sprinklr to access data only after such anonymization is completed'.