Lawyer tries to hurl object at India’s chief justice over remark about Hindu god

The lawyer on Monday approached the raised platform where Gavai was sitting and had to be stopped by security personnel as he prepared to throw an object at him.

A lawyer tried to hurl what appeared to be a shoe at India’s Chief Justice B.R. Gavai in the Supreme Court on Monday, media and lawyers present said, over recent remarks he made about the Hindu god Vishnu.