Overview
- A letter seeking the attorney general’s consent to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against advocate Rakesh Kishore has been sent.
- Kishore, 71, a Delhi-based lawyer and temporary SCBA member, tried to take off and throw his shoe toward the chief justice in Court No. 1 before security intervened.
- Delhi Police detained and questioned him for several hours and released him without a case after the Supreme Court office declined to press charges, returning his belongings.
- The Bar Council of India suspended his licence with immediate effect and said a disciplinary inquiry will follow.
- Police and Kishore linked his actions to anger over the CJI’s earlier Khajuraho-idol remarks; national leaders condemned the breach, and the CJI later warned about courtroom comments being misrepresented on social media.