Karnan J served bailable warrant as cops turn up at doorstep

The situation with Justice CS Karnan seems to get more dramatic by the day. In light of his recent actions, the sitting Calcutta High Court judge today was reportedly served the bailable warrant issued by the Supreme Court in the suo motu contempt case against him. This, after the judge had failed to appear before the apex court on the two previous hearings..A posse of policeman, led by the Director General of Police, West Bengal, along with the Assistant Director General of Police, CID and a Superintendent of Police from Karnan J’s home state, turned up at the judge’s residence today to serve the warrant. NDTV reports that as many as one hundred policeman were present..However, The Hindu reports that Karnan J’s lawyer, W Peter Ramesh, had revealed that the judge “refused to accept the warrant” even as the top cops turned up at his residence. That same article also quotes the ADGP (CID) as saying that he eventually accepted the warrant, after he “gave his observations on it”..Just yesterday, the controversial judge wrote a letter to the seven senior-most judges of the Supreme Court demanding a compensation of 14 crore, failing which he threatened to restrain their administrative and judicial work..A long history of belligerence towards his peers in the higher judiciary had led a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court, for the first time, to issue a bailable warrant against the former Madras High Court judge..Interestingly, former Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan has refused to accept the responsibility of clearing Justice Karnan’s name for appointment as a high court judge. He was quoted as saying,.“There was no way I could have known about Justice Karnan. We have no such mechanism (in the Supreme Court). We get recommendations from the high court concerned. Chief justices propose the names and we go by that. I did not make any specific inquiry about him.”