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The Supreme Court today ordered medical examination of Calcutta High Court Judge Justice C.S. Karnan on Thursday by a board of doctors, to be set up by a government hospital in Kolkata.
A seven-judge bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar also directed the Director General of Police of West Bengal to form a team of police officers which could assist the medical board in carrying out the medical examination on Justice Karnan.
The bench, while referring to its earlier order by which it had restrained Justice Karnan from exercising administrative and Judicial power, directed all the courts, tribunal and commissions across the country not to consider and act on the orders passed by him after 8th February.
The bench also asked the Judge to file his response to he contempt notice and made it clear that if no response was filed by May 8, then it would be presumed that he does not have anything to say.
The bench, which also comprised Justices Dipak Misra, J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, M B Lokur, P C Ghose and Kurian Joseph, has sought the medical report on or before 8th of this month and posted the contempt petition against Justice Karnan a day after.