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Judiciary Imploding? SC Judges Give Six Months Sentence To Karnan After He Sentenced Them For Five Years

Swarajya StaffMay 09, 2017, 12:52 PM | Updated 12:52 PM IST
Justice Karnan

Justice Karnan


A day after the Calcutta High Court Judge Justice C S Karnan, “sentenced” seven Supreme Court judges and the Chief Justice of India J S Khehat to five years of imprisonment, the seven member bench of the Supreme Court has sentenced the said judge to six months of jail.


Karnan had been stripped off his judicial and administrative powers restraining him from performing any official duties in February this year, despite which he had ordered the arrest of the very bench that was hearing his case to five-year rigorous imprisonment and alleged that he was being tried for contempt as he was a Dalit.

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