Days after 71-year-old advocate Rakesh Kishore hurled a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai during court proceedings, Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Thursday said Justice Gavai was attacked because he is from the Dalit community.

The Union minister demanded that a case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act be registered against Kishore.

Addressing the press in Panaji, Athawale said, “This incident is condemnable. For the first time, such an (attack) has happened on the Chief Justice of India… Honourable Bhushan Gavai is from the Dalit community and his father was the Governor of Kerala and Bihar…but he studied and as a result of his own efforts…(he) was in the Bombay High Court and later be

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