00:00There has been a bid to attack Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai, inside the courtroom.
00:06A lawyer allegedly attempted to create a ruckus in the court of Chief Justice B.R. Gavai
00:10and attempted to throw a shoe at the Chief Justice.
00:14The police have detained the accused lawyer and as the police were escorting him out,
00:18the accused lawyer declared, India will not tolerate the insult of Sanatana Dharam.
00:24However, Chief Justice remained calm throughout the incident and continued the hearing as usual.
00:30This happened during the mentioning in the morning, this morning, while the mentioning process was going on.
00:37A lawyer allegedly attempted to throw a shoe at the Chief Justice.
00:42He was, however, controlled by the security staff inside the courtroom and the shoe did not, in fact, hit the Chief Justice.
00:49However, Chief Justice, B.R. Gavai, continued the hearing and said,
00:55this is not going to affect me, please continue the hearing of the matters.
01:00This is news that is just coming in.
01:05The lawyer has been detained by the Supreme Court security staff.
01:11But while being taken outside, while being removed from the courtroom of the Chief Justice,
01:18the lawyer claimed India will not tolerate the attack on, insult on Sanatana Dharam.
01:26This is being seen by, this is being seen as a possible fallout of recent hearing where the Chief Justice refused to hear a matter relating to a Vishnu statue.
01:36But we are waiting for further information on this particular incident.
01:41What we can confirm to you, viewers, is that there was an attempt to attack the Chief Justice of India in his courtroom this morning
01:49as a lawyer attempted to throw a shoe at the Chief Justice.
01:53He was, however, stopped and removed from the courtroom before he could actually attack the Chief Justice of India inside his own courtroom.
02:00This is a very serious incident that has happened this morning during the mentioning process.
02:10As the Chief Justice of India, B.R. Gavai, was holding court, a lawyer attempted to throw a shoe at him.
02:18And when he was being removed, he also shouted that India will not tolerate the insult on Sanatana Dharam.
02:24This, the shouting was to disrupt the court hearing, but the courtroom hearing was not disrupted.
02:33The Chief Justice, in fact, said, I will not be distracted by such things. These things do not affect me.
02:40The Chief Justice, in fact, is that if a lawyer has been assaulted by the court, we are trying to kill him.
02:49Look, there is a member that we have inquired and know that he is a member of 2011.
02:55But we can say that we know that Lord Vishnu's matters,
03:02and the court's許可 is a member of Turkey.
03:03But we were trying to kill him.
03:04But that's true.
03:09It is a very serious description of the court,
03:11but we are trying to kill him.
03:13And now, after the court's plea,
03:15his wife has여-do-peer themselves.
03:16This plea's dla-do-peer.
03:19So, if a lawyer is not muttered into court,
03:22we are trying to kill him.
03:25Srishti Ojha is joining me on this story.
03:27Srishti,
03:28It's a very, very serious incident that a lawyer in the Chief Justice's court
03:33tries to take off his shoe and throw a shoe at the Chief Justice.
03:37What more do we know? What are you picking up from the Supreme Court?
03:41Well, definitely extremely shocking incident as well.
03:45What we're hearing about the chaos that took place in the Chief Justice of India's courtroom
03:49early morning today when the court sat to hear its mentioning.
03:53We're hearing from sources who are also present inside the courtroom
03:57that there was an attempt to throw a shoe at the Chief Justice of India
04:00by one of the lawyers who walked close to the dais
04:04and then tried to remove his shoe and throw it out of the CJS courtroom.
04:19He shouted that Sanatan ka apman nahi sehenge.
04:22And what we're also hearing is after the incident,
04:25the Chief Justice of India addressed the courtroom and asked them to not get distracted by all of this.
04:31CJ Gavai also said that these things do not affect him.
04:37So, quite a shocking incident which has happened today in CJS court
04:41for a lawyer to have behaved in this manner before the court room, inside the court room.
04:47In fact, what we're hearing from the police sources here is that he has now been detained by the police officials here.
04:55Back to you.
04:56Do you have any further information on who this person is, what is being done now,
05:00has any action been taken against him?
05:03He was detained and removed from the court immediately, of course.
05:06But what are you picking up from the police sources, from the security staff of the Supreme Court?
05:11Is he being arrested? Is there an FIR against him? What exactly is being done?
05:15Well, from our sources, what we're hearing is that the lawyer has been identified as one advocate,
05:23Rakesh Kishore. He was escorted out immediately after the incident took place by the security personnel
05:29and has also been detained, of course, right after the incident by the police officials present in the Supreme Court premises.
05:36Not just that, as per sources, he's also likely to be taken to meet the Secretary General.
05:41So, we're waiting on more information as to why exactly this particular thing was done by this lawyer,
05:49what was the reason and what further action will be taken against him by the Supreme Court
05:55is something that we are waiting out on more information for.
05:58But he's definitely been detained by the security personnel after he was escorted out of the CJI courtroom.
06:06Back to you.
06:06Srishti, is there any further information available?
06:09Have you been able to speak to any of the lawyers who were in the courtroom when this incident happened?
06:13Because the courtroom proceedings, I believe, were not disrupted at all.
06:17The Chief Justice went on with the court proceedings.
06:19In fact, told the lawyers that these things should not affect the hearing.
06:23Have you been able to speak to any person who was present when this incident happened?
06:29Yes, we've tried to speak to lawyers who were present in Chief Justice of India's court
06:33during the mentionings because this incident happened early in the morning when the court hears mentionings of cases
06:40before it moves on to hear the regular matters.
06:43And as you rightly pointed out, even as per those lawyers, the hearing before CJI's court was not disrupted.
06:50After this incident, CJI reacted in a very calm manner.
06:54In fact, also asked the lawyers present in the court to not get distracted by all this,
06:59saying that all this doesn't distract him and these things do not affect him.
07:04But it's definitely a shocking incident because we're talking about the highest court of the country
07:09and we're talking about a courtroom of the Chief Justice of India himself
07:14for such an unfortunate incident to have taken place.
07:18There's obviously, we are expecting some serious action to be taken.
07:23We've also spoken to lawyers who have condemned such an action,
07:26especially considering the fact that it's been done by a lawyer,
07:29not some layman, it has been done by a lawyer inside CJI's courtroom.
07:35So definitely some action is likely to be taken from what we're hearing from our sources.
07:40But we'll have to wait for some time to know exactly what action will be taken against him.
07:44But yes, you are right.
07:45The courtroom proceedings after the incident continued,
07:49normally the Chief Justice of India continued with hearings of the matters.
07:54There was no disruption as such.
07:56And the person was escorted out and then eventually detained.
07:59Back to you.
08:00Alright, Srishti, we've seen the kind of social media posts that have come out after this.
08:04There have been a lot of lawyers who were there,
08:07or lawyers who are hearing about it, have come out to speak about it,
08:10saying that brief chaos was there, Justice Gawai remained calm and continued the hearing.
08:15They're also saying that this kind of incident should not have happened.
08:18Is there any comment or statement coming in from the Supreme Court administration
08:22or the Supreme Court bar so far?
08:24We haven't seen any comment coming from, any official comment coming from the Supreme Court.
08:30Our information is limited to the lawyers who were present inside the courtroom
08:35and also from the police sources who we have tried to speak to here at the Supreme Court of India.
08:40What we're also hearing from the lawyers is that the incident could have been sparked.
08:45The comments that have come in from the lawyer who tried to attack the Chief Justice of India,
08:49the bench, could have been possibly sparked by CGI's comments in a previous case,
08:56which had also sparked a lot of controversy, if you remember,
08:59on social media in a case regarding to the idol of Lord Vishnu.
09:04So the speculation is that the incident today was possibly a fallout of that particular remark
09:10or the remarks made by CGI in that case.
09:14But yes, the Chief Justice of India very clearly remained unfazed today after the incident.
09:20That's exactly what we have heard from the lawyers.
09:23He remained unfazed.
09:24The bench continued to hear the arguments and also asked the lawyers to continue with their arguments,
09:30went on to hear the matters as per the list and did not get distracted or affected by the incident
09:37that had taken place, which in itself says a lot about the CGI and the bench itself,
09:42considering they decided to resume the hearing and we did not see the bench get up
09:48or ask the lawyers to leave the court.
09:51According to the lawyers present, the court remained unfazed and also asked the lawyers
09:56to not get distracted by the incident that had happened, pointing out that they are not distracted
10:02and CGI clearly saying that these things do not affect him.
10:07But we'll have to wait and watch and see if there's any official statement,
10:11which eventually comes in from the Supreme Court and especially what action
10:14the top court and its administration decides to take against this particular lawyer.
10:21Back to you.
10:21This is a very, very shocking incident that has happened in the Supreme Court,
10:27the highest court of the land, in the courtroom of the Chief Justice of India,
10:32where a lawyer reportedly tried to throw a shoe at the Chief Justice while he was sitting
10:39on the dais, he was sitting in the courtroom during the hearing that was going on.
10:46And this lawyer apparently saying that India will not tolerate the insult of Sanatana Dharam.
10:52What are you picking up from the Supreme Court right now?
10:54Srishti, you're in the Supreme Court.
10:56What are the lawyers in the corridor saying?
10:58Is this incident something that people are talking about?
11:01Is this person, has this person been identified?
11:04Well, yes, as I pointed out earlier, the person has been identified.
11:12He was escorted out of the, he's a lawyer practicing here.
11:16He was escorted out and then eventually detained.
11:18As far as the Supreme Court corridors and the lawyers are concerned,
11:21it is probably the only thing that we can hear lawyers,
11:24both senior and junior lawyers, discussed as of now,
11:27because not only is it a surprising event,
11:30but an extremely shocking incident to have happened.
11:33We have, as court reporters, seen some of these incidents,
11:37or we've heard of such incidents happen in lower courts, trial courts,
11:41because the security system in lower courts as compared to higher courts is a bit weak.
11:47There's more access to common people as far as courtrooms of trial courts are concerned.
11:52But if you talk about Supreme Court,
11:53there's an extremely, there's an extremely good security system in place where there's a high security zone,
12:02which is made where once you enter, there's a pass required to enter for entering in the high security zone.
12:08And it's the high security zone in Supreme Court where all the courtrooms are there, all the courtrooms.
12:13So, for such an incident to have happened inside the courtroom of the highest court of the country is definitely shocking
12:23and also raises questions, big questions.
12:27But what's also important to point out here is that the attack was, has come in,
12:32the attempt to attack the bench has come in from a lawyer.
12:35Now, lawyers, of course, are allowed to enter the high security zone for their matters.
12:41Because what steps the Supreme Court administration will take to ensure that such a lapse doesn't happen in the future
12:48or such an incident doesn't happen in the future will also be very crucial to watch out for,
12:53to see what, if at all any further steps are taken.
12:56Because if lawyers continue to behave in this manner in the highest court of the country,
13:01that will definitely raise a lot of questions even amongst the general public as far as they are concerned
13:08and also concern for other courts, high courts or, you know, the subordinate courts.
13:13So, it's very, it's not just surprising, but an extremely shocking incident which has taken place today
13:19in the CGI's court.
13:21And it will be important to see what action the top court administration will take
13:25and if any steps or any further changes would be implemented by the top court
13:30as far as its security and functioning inside courtrooms is concerned.
13:35Back to you.
13:36Thank you for that, Srishti Yoja.
13:37A very shocking incident today in the Supreme Court where the Chief Justice of India,
13:42there is an attempt to attack the Chief Justice of India.
13:45And all over social media and in the court corridors, lawyers are asking just what happened
13:52that this was allowed to happen.
13:54In fact, senior advocate Indra Jaisingh taking to social media saying that this requires detailed
14:00investigation because according to her, this appears to be a casteist attack on the Chief
14:04Justice of India and must be condemned.
14:07So, we'll have to wait and see what action is taken against this lawyer.
14:11A lawyer in full uniform with a proximity card, somebody who is authorized to be in the Supreme
14:16Court trying to attack the Chief Justice of India, trying to throw a shoe at the highest
14:22court of the land.
14:23That is sending a very, very shocking and very, very awful message to the country.
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