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 Rakesh Kishore go after the Supreme Court 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.
On Tuesday, Kishore told ANI that the chief justice “should think that when he is sitting on such a high constitutional post, he should understand the meaning of ‘Milord’ and uphold its dignity”.
“You go to Mauritius and say that the country will not run with a bulldozer,” he told ANI. “I ask the CJI and those opposing me: Is the bulldozer action by Yogi ji against those who encroached on government property wrong?...I am hurt and will continue to be so.”
Kishore seemed to be referencing a comment by...
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