`I'm mentally fit, want SC judges to quit'
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Kolkata:
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
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A four-member medical board
from the staterun Calcutta Pavlov Hospital knocked on Justice CS
Karnan's doors on Thursday but had to come back without assessing his
mental health, a job entrusted to it by the Supreme Court, after the
Calcut
ta high court judge asserted that they could not do so in the absence of
a legal guardian -in his case,
either his “wife or son“ -and that he was in perfect mental condition.
The medical team left with
police escort after 70 minutes, with a three-page response from Justice
Karnan, but not before he accused seven judges of the apex court of
performing “out of cause and jurisdiction“ and “requested them to
resign“.
It was he who had kept the interest of 127 crore Indians in mind, he said, and urged the SC to close contempt proceedings against him.“If a genuine man commits an error knowingly or unknowingly or inadvertently but, later on, rectifies his mistake, he is known as perfect gentleman, after all we are all human beings and not fallible,“ the response said. The Supreme Court, on May 1, ordered the state government to form a medical board to examine his mental condition. It followed a series of orders and counter-orders, with Justice Karnan often “holding court“ at his New Town residence to issue orders against SC judges in an unprecedented judicial back-and-forth.
The four-member Pavlov team, comprising hospital superintendent Ganesh Prasad, two psychiatrists and a psychologist, reached Justice Karnan's ground-floor apartment in Tower C of New Town's plush Rosedale complex at 11.55am on Thursday. Escorting them was a team of more than 20 policemen.
After learning of their intent, he told them any examination of a psychiatric patient must be done in front of a guardian. “I do not have a guardian present here. Can you examine me now?“ he asked, saying that his wife and one of his sons were in Chennai and his other son was working in France. As the perplexed Pavlov team nodded in the negative, he shook their hands and asked them to have a cup of tea before they left.
One of the team mem bers asked him for a written response from him to which Karnan agreed; he took them inside and started dictating a letter. The dictation and the typing out of the letter took nearly 40 minutes, following which he signed the letter. “He gave us his reasons for refusing a medical examination in writing and we forwarded the letter to the Supreme Court,“ Prasad said on Thursday evening.
Justice Karnan also gave the chairman of the medical board a handwritten letter on his official letterhead that explained why no medical examination could be conducted on him against his wish. He claimed that the SC order amounted to “insult and harassment“ of a Dalit judge. He set aside the SC order to form a medical board to examine his mental health, terming it as “irregular, illegal and erroneous“.
It was he who had kept the interest of 127 crore Indians in mind, he said, and urged the SC to close contempt proceedings against him.“If a genuine man commits an error knowingly or unknowingly or inadvertently but, later on, rectifies his mistake, he is known as perfect gentleman, after all we are all human beings and not fallible,“ the response said. The Supreme Court, on May 1, ordered the state government to form a medical board to examine his mental condition. It followed a series of orders and counter-orders, with Justice Karnan often “holding court“ at his New Town residence to issue orders against SC judges in an unprecedented judicial back-and-forth.
The four-member Pavlov team, comprising hospital superintendent Ganesh Prasad, two psychiatrists and a psychologist, reached Justice Karnan's ground-floor apartment in Tower C of New Town's plush Rosedale complex at 11.55am on Thursday. Escorting them was a team of more than 20 policemen.
After learning of their intent, he told them any examination of a psychiatric patient must be done in front of a guardian. “I do not have a guardian present here. Can you examine me now?“ he asked, saying that his wife and one of his sons were in Chennai and his other son was working in France. As the perplexed Pavlov team nodded in the negative, he shook their hands and asked them to have a cup of tea before they left.
One of the team mem bers asked him for a written response from him to which Karnan agreed; he took them inside and started dictating a letter. The dictation and the typing out of the letter took nearly 40 minutes, following which he signed the letter. “He gave us his reasons for refusing a medical examination in writing and we forwarded the letter to the Supreme Court,“ Prasad said on Thursday evening.
Justice Karnan also gave the chairman of the medical board a handwritten letter on his official letterhead that explained why no medical examination could be conducted on him against his wish. He claimed that the SC order amounted to “insult and harassment“ of a Dalit judge. He set aside the SC order to form a medical board to examine his mental health, terming it as “irregular, illegal and erroneous“.
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