Chennai: Former Kolkata High Court judge, CS Karnan, was arrested on Wednesday, which he posted offensive comments on YouTube, allegedly made against woman judges and wives of judges. Chennai police arrested him on Wednesday.

In 2017, ex-Justice Karnan became the first sitting high court judge to have been sentenced to jail. He was sentenced to six months for contempt of court at a time he was a judge of the Calcutta High Court. He had allegedly made defamatory and offensive comments against Supreme Court and High Court judges, the wives of judges and uploaded them online.The Madras High Court had recently come down heavily on the police for not acting in the case.

At the time, a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court, then headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar, had asked the West Bengal police Chief to take him into custody. He evaded arrest for weeks after being sentenced to jail until he was tracked down through his mobile phone. He was also the first sitting High Court judge to appear before the Supreme Court. He was first appointed a judge of the Madras High Court in 2009. He was transferred to the Calcutta High Court in 2016. He wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then President Pranab Mukherjee accusing senior judges of corruption.