KOLKATA (TIP): A defiant Calcutta High Court Judge Justice CS Karnan on April 13 asked the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and six judges of the Supreme Court, who have issued a contempt notice to him, to appear before him at his “residential court” on April 28.

Justice Karnan claimed the seven judges of the Bench had insulted him “wantonly and deliberately and with malafide Justice CS Karnan intention”.

He said the judges had been asked to defend themselves against the charge of violating the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act, levelled by him. Justice Karnan has been insisting that he is being discriminated against because he is a Dalit.

Addressing journalists at his residence, Justice Karnan said, “On April 28 at 11.30 am the seven judges will appear before me at my ‘Rosedale Residential Court’ and give their views regarding quantum of punishment for the violation of the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act.”

He passed the “suo motu judicial order” from his residence which, he said, has now become his “makeshift court”. In the signed order, Justice Karnan said on March 31, he had “pronounced a judgment wherein the seven judges are accused under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act”.

Justice Karnan had on March 31 appeared in the SC in the contempt case against him, a first in the Indian judicial history. Source: PTI