New Delhi, Oct 26 (TIWN) The Supreme Court on Monday termed an incident as unfortunate, in which a former judge of High Court forcefully attempted to enter the residence of retired top court judge Justice R. Banumathi, who retired in July this year, in Chennai.

A bench headed by Justice A. M. Khanwilkar noted that whatever has happened is “unfortunate”.  The bench told the senior advocate C. A. Sundaram, appearing for Delhi Tamil Advocates Association, that his client should take all appropriate actions, including filing representation and complaint.  The lawyers’ body consisting a group of lawyers had filed a plea complaining against the conduct of C.S. Karnan, former judge of Madras High Court who had to serve six months in a Kolkata prison after he was held guilty of criminal contempt by the Supreme Court.