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Justice Karnan: A courtroom drama that turned into TV soap
Judiciary is the institution that people look up to for justice.

POLITICS | 7-minute read | 09-05-2017

“Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; justice
is what comes out of a courtroom.”

— Clarence Darrow, American legal luminary

What has come out of courtrooms and straight into the common man’s
living room (via TV) is an unprecedented legal drama involving the
Indian judiciary.

In a never-happened-before order, the Supreme Court on Tuesday (May 9)
directed that Justice CS Karnan of Calcutta High Court be immediately
sent to jail for six months for contempt of court.

According to a PTI report, a seven-judge Constitution bench headed by
Chief Justice JS Khehar said, “We are of unanimous view that Justice
CS Karnan committed contempt of court, contempt of judiciary and the
process.” The bench — which included justices Dipak Misra, J
Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, MB Lokur, PC Ghose and Kurian Joseph — said
that it is satisfied that Justice Karnan be sentenced for six months
in jail.

This is the first time that a high court judge is being sent to jail
by the Supreme Court on charges of contempt.

Interestingly, the bench also banned the media, both print and
electronic, from publishing the content of further orders, if passed
by Justice Karnan.

How it all began

The 62-year-old judge has been in news ever since he wrote an open
letter to the prime minister in January 23, where he had levelled
allegations of corruption against 20 judges.

Following his letter, the Supreme Court charged him with contempt on
February 8, and restrained him from exercising administrative and
judicial power. This was believed to be the first time a contempt
notice was issued to sitting judge.

In response, Justice Karnan said “the characteristic of this order
clearly shows the upper caste judges are taking law into their hands
and misusing their judicial power by operating the same against a
SC/ST judge with mala fide intention of getting rid of him”. When
asked by mediapersons, if he would appear before the SC on or before
the deadline (March 31), Karnan had said “Why? For what purpose? This
is a wrong order. It is out of law.”

On March 31, he, however, appeared before the Supreme Court in
connection with the contempt proceeding, again becoming the first high
court judge to do so in the history of Indian judiciary.

On Tuesday, Karnan, who is due to retire on June 12 this year, became
the first sitting judge in India’s judicial history to be sentenced to
a prison term.

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Justice Karnan became the first sitting judge in India’s judicial
history to be sentenced to a prison term.

A history of run-ins

On March 11, Karnan, according to this report in Hindustan Times, had
released his written allegations against two judges of the Madras High
Court. While he accused one of tampering records to get into service
and amassing wealth through unfair means, the other, he alleged, had
raped an intern.

Justice Karnan had made these allegations in 2013 and 2014 as well.

“I wrote to the chief justice of Madras high court but no action has
been taken against them. I brought specific allegations against 20
judges. But while those 20 are silent, a seven-member bench of the SC
issued a warrant against me. Today I openly admit that Indian
judiciary is corrupt,” Karnan said at a press conference he addressed
at his residence .

He had signed an order in front of the media, directing the CBI to
“register, investigate and file a report before the appropriate court
of law under Article 226 read with Section 482 CrPC to prevent abuse
of process of any court….”

“I am a sitting high court judge. Any place where I sit and pass an
order becomes the court,” Karnan said.

Justice Karnan reportedly has had frequent arguments with fellow
judges — both in the Madras High Court (where he was originally
elevated) and the Calcutta High Court, apart from the Supreme Court.

In 2011, Justice Karnan had accused a fellow high court judge of caste
discrimination because “the judge, who sat next to him, deliberately
touched him with his foot”.

In January 2014, Justice Karnan had told a division bench that the
selections of Madras High Court judges by the collegium were unfair
and that he would like to file an affidavit. The division bench was
apparently hearing a PIL regarding alleged unfairness of appointments
of Madras High Court judges, when Karnan suddenly chose to speak up.
He, however, abruptly walked out.

While his behaviour was dismissed by the Supreme Court as
uncharitable, it led to the Chief Justice of the High Court, Justice
Agarwal, writing a letter to the CJI requesting that Justice Karnan to
be transferred out since “his brothers were scared of him”.

In response, Karnan filed a complaint with the National Commission for
the Schedule Castes (NCSC) alleging caste discrimination.

When Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul took over as Madras High Court Chief
Justice, Karnan once again launched a series of allegations against
several judges based on discrimination.

In May 2015, Justice Karnan publicly alleged in a letter to the CJI
that a brother judge had committed “custodial rape” of one of his
legal interns.

Mentally challenged?

On May 1, the now-jailed judge refused to undergo a refused to undergo
mental check-up that the Supreme Court had ordered him to. Just two
days before that he passed an order directing the Air Control
Authority to prevent Supreme Court judges from travelling abroad as
they would “spread the virus of caste discrimination”.

Following the apex court February order, Karnan had “summoned” seven
Supreme Court judges, including the CJI to his “residential court”,
and accused them of caste discrimination.

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Bahubali Adi @reviewero
Order of judiciary in India updated version 2017:
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On Monday (May evening, he sentenced the Chief Justice of India and
six Supreme Court judges to five years of rigorous imprisonment, and
imposed a fine of Rs 100,000 on each of them under the Scheduled
Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989 and
the amended Act of 2015. Karnan accused them of discriminating against
him for being a Dalit.

Accountability, anyone?

While all these developments have dealt severe damages to the image of
the judiciary, the controversy has also raised some uncomfortable
questions over not just its functioning, but judicial appointments as
well.

Apart from allegations of corruption against sitting judges, the
Calcutta High Court judge also raised the issue of caste
discrimination.

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Justice CS Karnan is a one man army against corruption and casteism in
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Putting a gag order on Justice Karnan is the violation of fundamental
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How did #JusticeKarnan pass through the collegium?
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Many legal luminaries now believe the case clearly proves that the
process of judicial appointments needs an overhaul and judges too
should be made accountable to the people — any authority that wields
power must be accountable as well.

Courtroom battles do make for some of the most interesting dramas,
especially onscreen, but it shouldn’t come at the cost of the
judiciary’s reputation because it’s the same institution that people
look up to for justice.

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