8Photo© hindustantimes.comSC bar association cancels membership of lawyer who tried to hurl shoe at CJI Gavai
His comments came even as politics spiked over the dramatic incident that took place inside the CJI’s courtroom on Monday. Union minister Ramdas Athawale demanded that the perpetrator, suspended lawyer Rakesh Kishore, be booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act as the Opposition alleged government inaction over the issue.
The remarks by CJI Gavai came when it was hearing a review petition seeking recall of a May 16 judgment that set aside two government notifications of 2017 and 2021 permitting development projects to commence work without prior environmental clearance.
As the bench headed by CJI Gavai along with justices Ujjal Bhuyan and K Vinod Chandran was hearing arguments, senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan used the expression “kicking and screaming” to describe how earlier judgments dealt with the two notifications.