A day before his contempt case comes up for hearing, Justice CS Karnan has passed an order “sentencing” the seven senior-most judges of the Supreme Court of India to five years imprisonment..The Calcutta High Court judge had refused to be evaluated by a team of doctors last week, after the Supreme Court directed a Government Hospital in the city to constitute a Medical Board for the purpose..Continuing the parallel “proceedings” against the apex court judges, Justice Karnan first passed an order last month, directing the judges to appear before him at his ‘Rosedale Residential Court’. When the judges predictably refused to show up, he ‘reposted’ the matter to May 1..Finding that the judges were not taking his orders seriously, Karnan J had issued non-bailable warrants against the seven “accused”. And now, he has taken things a step further by “sentencing” the judges to five years’ imprisonment, as per the provisions of the Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989..The latest development in the saga certainly makes for an interesting hearing in the Supreme Court tomorrow.
A day before his contempt case comes up for hearing, Justice CS Karnan has passed an order “sentencing” the seven senior-most judges of the Supreme Court of India to five years imprisonment..The Calcutta High Court judge had refused to be evaluated by a team of doctors last week, after the Supreme Court directed a Government Hospital in the city to constitute a Medical Board for the purpose..Continuing the parallel “proceedings” against the apex court judges, Justice Karnan first passed an order last month, directing the judges to appear before him at his ‘Rosedale Residential Court’. When the judges predictably refused to show up, he ‘reposted’ the matter to May 1..Finding that the judges were not taking his orders seriously, Karnan J had issued non-bailable warrants against the seven “accused”. And now, he has taken things a step further by “sentencing” the judges to five years’ imprisonment, as per the provisions of the Schedule Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989..The latest development in the saga certainly makes for an interesting hearing in the Supreme Court tomorrow.