Bengaluru: Former Bengaluru police commissioner Bhaskar Rao was bashed online after he expressed admiration towards lawyer Rakesh Kishore who hurled a shoe at Chief Justice of India BR Gawai.

Rao, a BJP leader, later said sorry when his admiration tweet went viral, earning the wrath of netizens.

“Even if it is legally & terribly wrong, I admire your courage, at your age, to take a stand and live by it, irrespective of consequences [sic],” Rao said in a tweet responding to a handle impersonating Kishore.

Rao was responding to @RakeshKishore_l who wrote: “No regret, no sorrow, no repentance!\"

After Rao faced heavy fire, the former IPS officer tendered an apology.

“My reaction was one of aghast and shock that a person, despite being so highly educated, aged and experienced such an actio

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