Delhi High Court Rejects Shashi Tharoor's Plea to Quash Defamation Case in 'Scorpion on Shivling' Remark

The Delhi High Court has given a big blow to senior Congress leader and MP Shashi Tharoor in the defamation case related to the derogatory remarks made on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The High Court has refused to quash the proceedings in the defamation case filed against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. Along with this, the court has dismissed the petition of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and also ordered the removal of the earlier ban.

Actually, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor had commented 'scorpion on Shivling' for PM Modi in the year 2018. BJP leader Rajiv Babbar had filed a defamation case against Tharoor against this derogatory statement of Shashi Tharoor. In this case, the Delhi High Court has given its verdict on Thursday.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had filed a petition in the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the defamation case filed against him by BJP leader Rajiv Babbar. Earlier, the Delhi High Court had stayed the proceedings going on in the lower court in this matter. Also, the High Court had stayed the summons issued to Shashi Tharoor by the lower court on 27 April 2019. However, now the court has rejected Shashi Tharoor's petition and has also lifted the stay.

Shashi Tharoor had said that an anonymous RSS source had told a journalist that Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling. You cannot remove him with your hand and you cannot even hit him with a slipper. Tharoor had said that if you try to touch a scorpion, you will get stung, but if you hit a Shivling with a slipper, it will undermine all the sacred principles of faith.