Former Calcutta HC Judge Karnan Taken To Hospital After Chest Pain Complain:- The arrested former Calcutta High Court Judge CS Karnan was taken to a state-run hospital yesterday evening, when he complained of a chest pain after he was brought to Chennai and sent to the Presidency correctional home (jail) in Kolkata.

A senior official at the Presidency correctional home (jail) told, “At the airport itself, Karnan complained of chest pain. The doctors there checked him and he was then brought to the Presidency correctional home where he complained that his chest pain had intensified.”

The blood pressure of the 62-year old Judge was found to be quite high and the doctors at the Presidency correctional home prescribed him to be taken to the state-run SSKM hospital for further check-up. When asked whether Karnan was likely to be admitted in the hospital, the officer said it depends on the doctors who were conducting the medical check-up of the former judge.

He said, “He is old and seems to be unwell too. We do not want to take any chance. An ECG was done on him.” A senior police officer said, a team of state CID officers brought him by an Air India flight earlier.”

Donned in white shirt and trouser, Karnan came out of the airport escorted by policemen in civil dress. When the reporters tried to approach him, he was taken aback by the police. At the airport, tight security arrangements were made, where senior police officers, including Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar, were present.

Since the May 9 Supreme Court order awarding him a six-month jail term, Karnan had been evading arrest. A team of West Bengal CID arrested him last night, from a private resort at Malumichampatti, about six km from Coimbatore, where he was allegedly hiding for the past few days.

From Coimbatore by a private airline past midnight yesterday, the former high court judge was brought to Chennai and later accommodated in the retiring room in the airport complex amid tight security. On the basis of his mobile phone calls, three police teams from Kolkata were camping in Coimbatore who traced Karnan. A senior local police officer had said, the technical support to trace his whereabouts were provided by the Tamil Nadu Police.

Karnan was given a six months imprisonment for contempt of court, by a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of India J S Khehar.

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