Overview

• An appellant threw a shoe at the presiding Additional Principal Judge inside Ahmedabad’s City Civil and Sessions Court on Tuesday during ongoing proceedings.
• Police said the man acted after his appeal was dismissed, identifying the sequence of events that led to the outburst.
• Court staff caught the man instantly, but the judge directed that no coercive action be taken and the individual was released.
• It remained unclear from initial reports whether the shoe struck the judge, and no case registration was publicly confirmed at the time.
• The Gujarat Judicial Service Association condemned the act as an assault on judicial independence, called on state authorities to bolster security and pursue prosecution, and noted the incident followed a recent shoe-throwing at the CJI for which the Bar Council suspended the advocate’s license.