Chennai, Nov. 13 -- Former Madras and Calcutta High Court judge Justice CS Karnan, the first sitting High Court judge in India to be sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of court, died at a private hospital here on Friday morning at the age of 71.
Justice Karnan, who was staying in Chennai post retirement, was undergoing treatment at Apollo hospital for health ailments. However, he breathed his last today morning despite the best of treatment.
Born in 1955 in Karnatham village in Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, he graduated in law from the Madras Law College in 1983 and practised as a lawyer. At the request of his wife, Saraswathi, he changed his birth name from Karunanidhi to Karnan in 1991.
He was appointed as Additional Judge of t...