CS Karnan, former high court judge, arrested in Chennai

CHENNAI: The cybercrime wing of the Chennai city police on Wednesday arrested former judge of the Calcutta and Madras high courts Justice C S Karnan for uploading in social media a video having obscene and defamatory remarks against retired and serving Supreme Court judges, their wives and woman judges.
A police team nabbed Karnan from his residence in Avadi, He was detained at the commissioner’s office in Vepery.
The police registered a case against him under sections 509 (whoever, intending to insult the modesty of any woman, utters any words, makes any sound or gesture) and 153 (wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot) of the IPC.
The police said Justice Karnan would be produced before a magistrate court and then remanded in Puzhal prison. Earlier, in October, the Tiruvanmiyur police registered a case against five men without naming Karnan for trespassing into Supreme Court judge Justice R Banumathi’s residence in Kalashetra Colony.
In 2017, he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for contempt of court.