All the security, position couldn’t protect CJI BR Gavai from being reminded that he is a Dalit. That a lawyer hurled a shoe at him, citing ‘Sanatan Dharma’, and notexpress regret, says a lot about the impunity ‘hurt sentiment’ enjoys today. Religious conservatism is now above law and order.
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