71-year-old advocate allegedly threw a shoe at Chief Justice of India B R Gavai during proceedings inside the Supreme Court Monday morning. The police let him go later in the day after the CJI instructed the court’s registrar general not to press charges, sources told The Indian Express.

Delhi Police sources told The Indian Express that the advocate, who was identified as Rakesh Kishore, claimed during questioning that he was “unhappy with the CJI’s remarks” during a recent hearing of a plea seeking the restoration of a Lord Vishnu idol at the Khajuraho templecomplex in Madhya Pradesh.

Speaking to The Indian Express, CJI Gavai said nothing had landed on his body or his desk. “I only heard the sound.

Maybe it fell on some table or somewhere… I only heard him say ‘Maine Gavai saab ke taraf pheka tha (I had thrown it at CJI Gavai)’. Perhaps what he threw landed somewhere else and he was trying to explain,” he said.

I told the lawyer who was arguing, you just ignore it.