New Delhi: Rakesh Kishore, the advocate who gained infamy a few months ago when he hurled a shoe at the former Chief Justice of India B.R. Gavai in a Supreme Court courtroom, was seen in videos being manhandled at a Delhi court on December 9.

The incident happened at the Karkardooma Court premises. It is appears from videos that slippers were thrown at him.

The October attack by Kishore on the CJI had invited condemnation and was said to have laid bare the "deepest fault line in India."

The 71-year-old advocate had allegedly been offended by former CJI Gavai dismissal of a public interest litigation to restore a dilapidated statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu in one of the UNESCO heritage sites in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh.

Gavai called it a “publicity interest litigation” and said, “Go and ask the deity himself to do something. If you are saying that you are a strong devotee of Lord Vishnu, then you pray and do some meditation.”

The police said after the incident at the Supreme Court that Kishore had brought a piece of paper that said, “Sanatan dharma ka apmaan, nahi sahega Hindustan (India will not tolerate insults to sanatan dharma or Hinduism)" – a slogan that he reportedly also raised at the CJI’s court, after the shoe assault.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Kishore said a day ago that a "young advocate, probably around 35 or 40 years old" attacked him "with his slippers."

"And they also said that they were punishing us for throwing a shoe at the Chief Justice of India. They also said that he was a Dalit and that’s why they threw the shoe at him. Then we also chanted ‘Sanatan’ slogans," Kishore is quoted as having said.

It is not clear which pronouns refer to whom, but it can be assumed that Kishore was referring to the young advocate having told him that he threw the shoe at the former CJI because the former CJI was Dalit.

Kishore told Indian Express that he did not file a complaint. "What’s the point of complaining against lawyers? They are all our own brothers. It’s just a small matter within the family,” he added.

However, to ANI, Rakesh Kishore said that "100-150 people surrounded him and attacked him."

He also said that when the alleged attackers told him that they were there because he had attacked the former CJI, he told them that the former CJI had "insulted Lord Vishnu".

Kishore denied that the violence started with him.

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