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A lawyer tried to throw a shoe at the Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai, during a hearing this Monday over statements made by the magistrate about a Hindu god in a previous case, according to statements from Supreme Court lawyers' associations.
Lawyer Rakesh Kishore approached the stand where the President of the Supreme Court of India, B.R. Gavai, was sitting this Monday and had to be stopped by security personnel when he was about to throw a shoe at him, according to statements issued separately by the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and the Supreme Court Registered Advocates Association (SCAORA).
The Supreme Court president asked the court to continue the proceedings while his attacker was being removed from the courtroom, the statements added.
The trigger for the act committed by the lawyer, Rakesh Kishore, would have been a comment by the Chief Justice, B.R. Gavai, during a hearing on the restoration of a statue of the god Vishnu in a temple in the Asian country, explained the lawyers' associations.
Gavai dismissed the restoration request. "Go and ask the deity itself to do something," he said. He later clarified that his words were misinterpreted on social media and that he respects all religions, they emphasized.
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) unanimously condemned in the statement the "reprehensible act" committed by the lawyer, calling the conduct "totally unbecoming of a judicial officer."
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The SCBA noted that it undermines the foundations of mutual respect between the judiciary and the legal profession.
For its part, the Supreme Court Registered Attorneys Association (SCAORA) also repudiated the lawyer's "unjustified and untimely gesture" in what they have defined as an "attack on judicial independence".
Finally, the Bar Council of India (BCI) decided to suspend the professional practice of lawyer Rakesh Kishore and initiated disciplinary proceedings against him.
