Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale said Thursday that Chief Justice of India B R Gavai had been targeted with a shoe during Supreme Court proceedings on Monday as he is a Dalit, and demanded that a case under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act be registered against the lawyer who was behind the act.

Speaking at a press conference in Panaji, Athawale said: “For the first time such an attack has happened on the Chief Justice of India… The Honorable 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) made it to the Bombay High Court and later the Supreme Court and got the opportunity to be the Chief Justice… Many people from the Savarna Samaj (

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