Chennai lawyer sentenced

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, DEC. 15.

The Supreme Court today sentenced Mr. S.K. Sundaram, a Chennai- based lawyer, to undergo six months imprisonment, holding him `guilty of criminal contempt' for sending a telegram to the Chief Justice of India, Dr. A.S. Anand, asking him to step down alleging that he had already attained the age of superannuation.

A Bench comprising Mr. Justice K.T. Thomas and Mr. Justice R.P. Sethi, however, suspended the sentence for a month and in the meanwhile the contemnor should give an undertaking that he would not commit or even attempt to commit any act of criminal contempt, then the sentence now imposed would remain suspended for a further period of five years.

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