Supreme court refused the interim-bail for former justice Karnan

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Former High Court judge C.S Karnan who was arrested on Tuesday after evading arrest since May was declined an interim bail by the apex court on Wednesday. 

 Karnan who had been awarded with six months imprisonment over contempt of court charges, had been hiding in lakefront in Kochi. 

 Meanwhile,the claims made by West Bengal police chief on Wednesday have raked up a fresh controversy as he said," The police team searching Karnan, knew about his hiding place in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu for three days before moving in to arrest him".

 "We knew about his(Karnan's) whereabouts three days back.We were tracking phone calls of people close to him and we also have our own sources," Director General of Police Raj Kanojia told media.

 Kanojia spoke at the Chennai airport before leaving to Kolkata.

 "This was a unique case he had handled in his entire service and may be no other police officer will be handling such a case in a long time to come"he said.

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