Carnot refrigerator and II law of Thermodynamics

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As per II law of thermodynamics you it is NOT possible that a hotter body becomes hotter and colder body becomes colder when in contact. But in a Carnot refrigerator, the heat is taken from a cold reservoir and pushed to a hotter one. It sort of opposite the II law. Help me over this paradoxical situation.
 
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There is an input of work in the carnot refrigerator.

The second law of thermodynamics states that heat does not flow from a cold reservoir to a hot reservoir spontaneously. However, heat may flow from a cold reservoir to a hot reservoir with the input of work.