In his first reaction to the incident after a lawyer in his seventies allegedly hurled a shoe toward him inside his courtroom earlier in the day, Chief Justice of India B R Gavai told The Indian Express that he asked the lawyer arguing before him to “just ignore it”. “I am not distracted by all this. You also don’t be distracted and proceed further with the case,” he said Monday afternoon, recounting his immediate response to the incident that took place during mentioning hours in Court No. 1.

The Chief Justice, who appeared unruffled, said nothing landed on him or his desk. “I only heard the sound. Maybe it fell on some table or somewhere,” he told this newspaper, adding, “I only heard him say ‘maine Gavai saab ke taraf bheka tha’. Perhaps what he threw landed somewhere else and he was t

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