PALA: Power goes off while frying fish. A couple has been hospitalised after eating fish fry strewn with rat poison instead of pepper powder. Justin (22) and his wife Shalini (22) of Meenachil are undergoing treatment at Kottayam Medical College Hospital. Their seven month old baby is fine. The incident happened Tuesday night. Soon after eating food, they started vomiting. When they went to the kitchen, they found that rat poison was strewn instead of pepper powder. They were first taken to Pala General Hospital and later to Kottayam Medical College Hospital. Their condition is satisfactory. How the poison came in the kitchen is mysterious.