New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning sent Calcutta High Court Judge Chinnaswamy Swaminathan Karnan to six months in prison on charges of contempt, biting the bullet in an unprecedented months-long face-off in the upper judiciary.
This is the first time a sitting Judge of a High Court will be arrested and put behind bars. Karnan retires next month. The Court has asked West Bengal’s Police chief to arrest Justice Karnan immediately. But sources said Karnan had left Kolkata for Chennai last night.
