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Justice CS Karnan seeks bail, Supreme Court says ‘go to jail’

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Calcutta High Court’s former judge Justice CS Karnan, who was arrested in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court seeking bail and suspension of six-month sentence awarded to him in May.

The SC, however, refused to entertain Karnan’s bail plea.

A vacation bench of the apex court headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud and also comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul refused to give any relief in the matter.

Mathew J Nedumpara, lawyer appearing for Karnan, mentioned the matter before the vacation bench of the top court on Wednesday.

Nedumpara pleaded to the Apex Court seeking bail and suspension of the six months jail sentence, to which the court observed, “The seven judge bench had passed the order. It binds everybody. It binds us also.”

“The matter has been heard by a seven-judge bench and order has been passed. The order is binding on us. We in vacation cannot override it. It is nothing we can do,” a vacation bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and S K Kaul said.

Earlier on June 7, the apex court refused to grant relief to Justice Karnan. The top court earlier on May 19 rejected Justice Karnan’s plea for recall of the six-month jail term, stating that the petition was “not maintainable” in the court.

The top court had taken suo motu cognizance of numerous letters written by him against judges of the Madras High Court and the apex court and restrained him from exercising administrative and judicial powers from February 8.

Karnan is the first ever sitting judge of a higher court in judicial history to be sentenced to jail term.

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