A second method is to persuade judges to resign or repent and fall in line. This happened in the Bombay case where chief justice Bhattacharya resigned. This is best if it works. The third method of disciplining high court judges is to transfer them. Although the power to transfer exists (Article 222), this is an invidious practice of covert punishment without consent. When Chief Justices (for example, Roy and Dinakaran) were transferred to Sikkim, the Sikkim Bar protested that undesirable judges should not be dumped on their court. In any case, Karnan was transferred to Calcutta at the request of Madras CJ Aggarwal and, when in Calcutta, quarrelled with judges. Calcutta CJ Chellur gave him a single judge jurisdiction. His accusations continued. The fourth solution is the Khehar solution—to constitute a seven-judge bench. The SC went into action with its contempt power. Karnan was initially contrite. Reportedly, he said he was mentally unstable and even wrote that he will “continue to foster a harmonious attitude...towards all”. His angst has been that he is a badly treated Dalit and was exposing corruption of 20 HC and SC judges. After the Supreme Court’s contempt notice and later the warrant for arrest, he defiantly asked the seven SC judges to pay Rs 14 crores as compensation to him, an illegal demand.