Bengaluru Cybercrime Police have filed a case against five users for posting derogatory remarks against CJI B R Gavai after a Delhi lawyer’s shoe-throwing incident in court. The accused face charges under BNS Section 352 for provoking breach of peace.
Bengaluru: The Bengaluru Cybercrime Police have filed a case against five people for allegedly posting abusive and derogatory comments about Chief Justice of India (CJI) B. R. Gavai on social media. This action comes soon after an incident in which a Delhi-based lawyer tried to throw a shoe at the Chief Justice inside the Supreme Court.
According to the police, the five accused are identified as Kesari Nandan, Sridharkumar, Nagendra Prasad, Ramesh Naik, and Manunath M C Manju.
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They have been booked under Section 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which deals with
“intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace.”
The case was registered suo motu (on their own) by the Cybercrime Police after their social media monitoring team found objectionable posts on Facebook targeting the CJI.
One user allegedly wrote in Kannada suggesting violence and referencing Godse, while others made personal attacks and used offensive language against Justice Gavai.
This police action follows a zero FIR filed earlier by the Vidhana Soudha Police against 71-year-old advocate Rakesh Kishore, who attempted to hurl footwear at the Chief Justice on October 6 inside the Supreme Court.
Kishore was quickly detained but later released the same day after Justice Gavai instructed the court’s registrar-general not to press charges against him.
Kishore, when questioned, said he was “unhappy” with the remarks made by Justice Gavai during a hearing related to a plea seeking the restoration of a Lord Vishnu idol at the Khajuraho temple complex in Madhya Pradesh.
During the incident, he was heard shouting,
“Sanatan ka apman nahi sahenge (We will not tolerate the insult to Sanatan Dharma)”,
just before he allegedly threw his shoe toward the Chief Justice.
Reacting to the incident later, Justice Gavai said he and his colleague were shocked but had moved on from the matter.
“My learned brother (Justice K Vinod Chandran) and I were very shocked with what happened on Monday… for us it is a forgotten chapter,”
he remarked while hearing another case recently.
However, Justice Ujjal Bhuyan, who was also part of the same bench, took a stronger stance and expressed disagreement about how the matter was handled.
He stated,
“I have my own views on this. He is the Chief Justice of India. It’s not a matter of joke.”
Justice Bhuyan further added,
“I am not apologetic thereafter; it’s an affront to the institution.”
Explaining his view about judicial conduct, he said,
“As judges over the years, we will do a lot of things which others may not think are justifiable, but that does not change our opinion about what we did.”
Following the incident, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has suspended advocate Rakesh Kishore from practice with immediate effect.
This sequence of events highlights how the judiciary and law enforcement have taken both the physical attack and the online abuse against the Chief Justice seriously.
The police have made it clear that such acts—whether in court or on social media—will be treated as serious offenses under the law.
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