Lawyer who attacked CJI Gavai released after SC registrar general declines to press charges

The lawyer who allegedly threw a shoe at Chief Justice BR Gavai inside the Supreme Court on Monday morning was released from police custody three hours after questioning, The Indian Express reported.

The Delhi Police let the lawyer, Rakesh Kishore, go after the Supreme Court’s registrar general declined to press charges against him.

The registrar general also directed the police to return the shoes and documents that had been seized from the lawyer, The Indian Express reported.

According to the police, a handwritten note was recovered from Kishore that read: “Mera sandesh har Sanatani ke liye hai… Sanatan dharma ka apmaan nahi sahega Hindustan” (“My message is for all Sanatanis… India will not tolerate the disrespect to Sanatan Dharma”), The Indian Express reported.

Sanatan Dharma is a term some use as a synonym for Hinduism.

Kishore had allegedly tried to throw a shoe at Gavai while shouting a slogan accusing him of insulting Hinduism.

He appeared to have been angered by a statement made by the chief justice on September 16 while hearing a plea seeking the restoration of a beheaded idol of Hindu deity Vishnu at Madhya Pradesh’s Khajuraho.

While dismissing the plea Gavai had said at the time: “This is purely publicity interest litigation. Go and ask the deity himself to do something. If you are saying that...

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