WB CID arrests retired Justice C.S. Karnan from Coimbatore in contempt case
According to reports, taking assistance from Tamil Nadu police, a seven-man team of the CID booked former Justice Karnan from an 'undisclosed' place at Coimbatore.
A CID official told IBNS that Karnan will be produced in a Chennai court on Wednesday and he will be taken to Kolkata on a transit remand later.
Earlier in May, Supreme Court of India sentenced C.S. Karnan to six months of imprisonment, holding him guilty of contempt of court, and directed West Bengal Police's DG to arrest the controversial judge.
Supreme Court pronounced the order, days after Karnan found eight justices of Supreme Court, including Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar, guilty under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and awarded them with five years rigorous imprisonment.
Based on an suo-motto hearing, Karnan pronounced the order in a makeshift court at his residence in Kolkata's New Town area on May 8.
Since an arrest warrant was issued against him, Chinnaswamy Swaminathan Karnan went absconding and he retired as a judge of Calcutta High Court on Jun 12 while being untraceable.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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