After around a month of hiding, former Calcutta High Court judge C S Karnan was detained on Tuesday night by the West Bengal CID from a guest house in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Supreme Court has sentenced Karnan to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.
“Justice Karnan has been arrested. He will be brought to Kolkata via Chennai tomorrow morning and he will be put in Presidency Jail,” ADG (CID) Rajesh Kumar told The Indian Express.
The 62-year-old Karnan, who retired on June 12, had been evading arrest since long. On May 9, Supreme Court in its first of its kind order, sentences a serving high court judge.
Karnan’s location was traced to a guest house attached to a private educational institution at Malumichampatti near Coimbatore. He tried to resist the arrest but failed.
Last month, a seven-judge bench of the SC, led by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar, had asked the West Bengal DGP to take Karnan into supervision. After the order, Karnan tried to get relief but failed as SC refused to hear his plea seeking a stay on its jail term order.
