Tag: CS Karnan
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President Kovind receives plea for remission of jail term from Karnan
Former Calcutta High Court judge CS Karnan on Tuesday sought remission of the six-month jail term from newly sworn-in President Ram Nath Kovind. Karnan, who is at present serving jail term at Presidency Jail in Kolkata, made the representation through his counsel Mathews J Nedumpara under the Article 72 of the Constitution, seeking remission of...
July 25, 2017 -
SC refuses urgent hearing for Karnan bail plea
In a setback to former Kolkata High Court judge CS Karnan, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to accord urgent hearing on his plea seeking bail and recall of the previous order convicting him for contempt. "Declined… We will not accept an oral request against the judgment," said a bench of Chief Justice J S...
July 3, 2017 -
SC refuses urgent hearing to Justice CS Karnan seeking bail
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to accord urgent hearing on a plea of former Calcutta High Court judge, Justice C S Karnan, seeking bail and recall of the order convicting him for contempt. Karnan, who was arrested on June 20 in pursuance of the apex court's judgement awarding him six-month jail term for contempt...
July 3, 2017 -
Karnan sent to Presidency jail hospital
Arrested former Calcutta High Court judge CS Karnan has been released from the state-run SSKM hospital and sent back to Presidency jail hospital after his health condition improved. “His health condition improved and we have decided to release him from the hospital. However, he requires medical supervision,” a senior official of the SSKM hospital said....
June 30, 2017 -
Ex-HC judge CS Karnan petitions Governor for bail or parole
Former Calcutta High Court judge CS Karnan, jailed on an order of the Supreme Court, has moved a petition before the governor of West Bengal seeking bail or parole. Karnan, 62, who was lodged at the Presidency Correctional Home here on June 21 following his arrest in Tamil Nadu a day earlier, is at present...
June 26, 2017 -
Bail not Jail
The Supreme Court last Wednesday refused to entertain jailed former Calcutta High Court judge CS Karnan’s plea to grant him interim bail pending the seven-judge Bench’s promised detailed order convicting him of contempt of court and sentencing him to six months’ imprisonment. No charges were framed against him. While holding him guilty of contempt of...
June 25, 2017 -
Judge behind bars
It would be a case of justice delayed, though not entirely denied. Former High Court judge CS Karnan has eventually found himself behind bars in the Presidency Jail, Kolkata, later taken to hospital ~ and yet another plea for suspending his sentence was rejected by a two-member Bench of the apex court. The vacation Bench...
June 22, 2017 -
Justice Karnan taken to hospital, sent back to correctional home
Arrested former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan was taken to hospital on Wednesday after he complained of chest pain and was returned to Presidency correctional home (jail) when doctors found nothing “alarming”. Earlier in the day, Karnan was flown in from Chennai after he was found hiding in Coimbatore by a team of...
June 22, 2017 -
Supreme Court turns down Karnan’s plea for suspension of jail term
A day after Calcutta High Court's former judge Justice CS Karnan was arrested in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a plea to suspend his sentence. “Justice Karnan’s six-month jail term will not be suspended,” the top court bench said. According to reports, Karnan, who was sentenced to six-month imprisonment by...
June 21, 2017 -
Police knew about Karnan’s hiding place for three days
The police team searching for Calcutta High Court's former judge CS Karnan knew about his hiding place in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu for three days before moving in to arrest him, the West Bengal police chief said on Wednesday. "We knew about his (Karnan's) whereabouts three days back. We were tracking phone calls of people close...
June 21, 2017 -
Fugitive ‘Justice’
Were there not such grave, nationwide implications to the defiance of a punitive order of the Supreme Court of India, as well as their Lordships' inability to galvanise the law and order machinery into effecting an arrest required for its sentence to be carried out, there would have been an amusing angle to Justice CS...
June 13, 2017 -
No relief for Justice Karnan as SC turns down plea to recall arrest order
In another development to Justice CS Karnan's case, the Supreme Court on Monday turned down his plea to recall arrest order and slammed him for repeatedly filing plea. "You are wasting court's time, will hear plea when it comes up," the top court bench told CS Karnan's lawyer who urged the top court to hear...
May 15, 2017 -
L’Affaire Karnan
An idle mind, it is said, is the devil’s workshop. Justice CS Karnan, a Judge of the Madras High Court, was transferred to the Calcutta High Court as punishment for his unconventional behaviour and kept idle without any judicial work. As such, he posed no threat to administration of justice. Instead of letting him complete...
May 14, 2017 -
SC raps Karnan’s lawyer, says conscious decision taken in awarding jail term
The Supreme Court on Friday said a "conscious decision" was taken by seven of its judges to sentence Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan to six months imprisonment by holding him guilty of contempt. "The seven judges assembled to take a conscious decision," a bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said. The...
May 12, 2017