Karnan to walk out of prison today
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Chennai: “He is bold, happy and confident” is how a friend described retired judge Justice C S Karnan, on the eve of his release from aKolkata jail.
A former judge of the Madras and Calcutta high courts, Justice Karnan became the first serving HC judge to be jailed for contempt of court in June. Having served his sixmonth term, he is set to step out of the Presidency Correctional Home in Kolkata on Wednesday. “When exactly he will be released is not clear. It could be morning, or late in the evening, if they insist on him completing the last day in jail,” said the former judge’s confidante M Malaviya.
‘Karnan stands by what he stated prior to imprisonment’
“The judge said he felt as if he was in jail even while he was in service. Such were the job-related restrictions. He also said that the Kolkata jail was, after all, in India and not in America,” Malaviya said.
“We have not received any formal intimation, but our lawyer W Peter Ramesh Kumar informed us that he will be released on Wednesday,” said Malaviya. News agencies also quoted Justice Karnan’s wife as saying that she would fly down to Kolkata to accompany her husband back to Chennai.
Malaviya said that even during his last meeting with the ex-judge, the latter stood by what all he had stated prior to his imprisonment and reiterated that he had been jailed without being heard fully.
On May 9, citing his intemperate outbursts against serving judges and holding him guilty of contempt of court, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India J S Khehar, Justices Dipak Misra, J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur, P C Ghose and Kurian Joseph sentenced him to six months jail term: “We will create a blemish if we do not punish him just because he is a judge. Contempt has no different colours — for a common man or a judge.”
“ We cannot differentiate that he is a judge in a contempt case,” the bench had said.
But Justice Karnan went underground a few hours after the historic verdict was out. He remained at large till June 20, when he was tracked down in Coimbatore and remanded in custody as per the apex court
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: “He is bold, happy and confident” is how a friend described retired judge Justice C S Karnan, on the eve of his release from aKolkata jail.
A former judge of the Madras and Calcutta high courts, Justice Karnan became the first serving HC judge to be jailed for contempt of court in June. Having served his sixmonth term, he is set to step out of the Presidency Correctional Home in Kolkata on Wednesday. “When exactly he will be released is not clear. It could be morning, or late in the evening, if they insist on him completing the last day in jail,” said the former judge’s confidante M Malaviya.
‘Karnan stands by what he stated prior to imprisonment’
“The judge said he felt as if he was in jail even while he was in service. Such were the job-related restrictions. He also said that the Kolkata jail was, after all, in India and not in America,” Malaviya said.
“We have not received any formal intimation, but our lawyer W Peter Ramesh Kumar informed us that he will be released on Wednesday,” said Malaviya. News agencies also quoted Justice Karnan’s wife as saying that she would fly down to Kolkata to accompany her husband back to Chennai.
Malaviya said that even during his last meeting with the ex-judge, the latter stood by what all he had stated prior to his imprisonment and reiterated that he had been jailed without being heard fully.
On May 9, citing his intemperate outbursts against serving judges and holding him guilty of contempt of court, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India J S Khehar, Justices Dipak Misra, J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur, P C Ghose and Kurian Joseph sentenced him to six months jail term: “We will create a blemish if we do not punish him just because he is a judge. Contempt has no different colours — for a common man or a judge.”
“ We cannot differentiate that he is a judge in a contempt case,” the bench had said.
But Justice Karnan went underground a few hours after the historic verdict was out. He remained at large till June 20, when he was tracked down in Coimbatore and remanded in custody as per the apex court
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