Two days later, the shocking episode when a lawyer tried to fling a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R. Gavai during hearings in the Supreme Court, the CJI, on Thursday, said that it was a forgotten chapter. The comment was made at a bench of CJI Gavai, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, and Justice K. Vinod Chandran that was hearing a review petition on a May 16 judgment set aside by the bench that permitted two government notifications to conduce the commencement of development projects without prior environmental clearance.
CJI Gavai, on the part of the incident, said, “I was shocked by the happenings on Monday (October 6) and my brother (Justice Chandran) supported me. It is a forgotten chapter with us.” His remarks had the reflection of his choice to leave the issue behind and never come back to it.
The row erupted on Monday morning at the time of cases being mentioned, when advocate Rakesh Kishore got up impulsively on Monday morning, simply reached to take off his shoe, and tried to hit the bench with it. Police officers rushed up and tied him down. When he was taking him out, Kishore was reported to have cried out, “Sanatan ka apmaan nahi sahenge (We will not tolerate any disgrace to Sanatan).”
CJI Gavai stood it, and when all this was going on, he had a calm word to say to the courtroom: “Don’t be distracted by all this. Such matters are irrelevant to me,” and the proceedings were then continued. He later refused to press charges and ordered authorities to forget the incident.
An elderly advocate, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, said it was a pitiable incident, remembering that ten years earlier, a similar incident of shoe hurling had occurred in the Supreme Court, where the bench was in disarray as to what to do. Justice Bhuyan, however, expressed an opposite opinion and said as follows: This may not be forgotten. The CJI is not a joke of an institution. It is an insult to the courts as such.
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