Janjivan Bureau / New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday held the Calcutta High Court’s Justice C.S. Karnan guilty of contempt and ordered he be jailed for six months.
Holding Justice Karnan guilty of contempt for his utterances against the Chief Justice of India and other judges of the apex court and the Madras High Court, a seven-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar had barred the electronic and print media from carrying any of his statements.
Justice Karnan had written a series of letters making allegations against the judges of the apex court and the high court.
In the last hearing, the apex court had directed the medical examination of Justice Karnan, which he refused to undergo.
The bench had initiated suo motu(on its own) contempt proceedings against Justice Karnan and restrained him from performing judicial and administrative work.
Justice Karnan also added another supreme court judge Justice R Banumathi in the list against whom the order was passed for having restrained his judicial and administrative work along with CJI Khehar.
Justice Karnan had on 4 May declined to undergo a mental health checkup as ordered by the supreme court, telling a team of doctors he is “absolutely normal” and has a “stable mind”.
Stating that the eight judges of the apex court have committed caste discrimination, Justice Karnan said they “shall be punished under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes Atrocities Act, 1989.”
