The Supreme Court today issued show cause notices against governments of Kerala, Karnataka, Mizoram and Madhya Pradesh asking why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for not filing responses to its directions on issues like rehabilitation of acid attack victims.<br/><br/>A bench comprising Justices M Y Eqbal and C Nagappan asked the Chief Secretaries of the four states to file their replies to the contempt notices within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on September 23. <br/><br/>The bench was hearing a PIL filed by a Bihar-based NGO seeking the court's direction on the rehabilitation of the victims. <br/><br/>Earlier, the court, which had passed a slew of directions on the issue, had given two weeks more as a last chance to certain states for filing counter affidavits.<br/><br/>Prior to this, the court had come to the aid of acid attack survivors by issuing directions including an order to all private hospitals across the country to provide free treatment, including medicines and expensive reconstruction surgeries, to such victims.<br/><br/> It had asked all state governments and Union Territories to take up the matter with the private hospitals to ensure that acid attack victims are attended to immediately and adequately.