Enough, SC wants case closed

The Supreme Court today said it wanted to give a 8216;8216;quietus8217;8217; to cases pertaining to contempt of court action against the media for linking three judges of the Karnataka High Court to the 8216;8216;Mysore sex scandal8217;8217;.

A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice V.N. Khare, Justice S.B. Sinha and Justice Ar Lakshmanan sought assistance from constitutional expert and senior advocate Fali S. Nariman on this issue and reiterated that 8216;8216;the matter should end here8217;8217;. The Court then adjourned the matter by four weeks.

The Karnataka High Court had suo motu initiated contempt of court proceedings against 11 dailies for tarnishing the image of the judiciary as a high-level judges8217; committee appointed by the Chief Justice of India to look into the matter had given a clean chit to the three HC judges.