India, Oct. 9 -- Two days after the attempt to hurl a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R. Gavai during court proceedings in the top court, Gavai said on Thursday that he does not wish to take the matter further and has "forgotten about it."

CJI Gavai's remark came while the bench headed by him, along with justices Ujjal Bhuyan and K. Vinod Chandran, was hearing a review petition seeking recall of a May 16 judgment that set aside two government notifications from 2017 and 2021 permitting development projects to commence work without prior environmental clearance.

"My brother (justice Chandran) and I were shocked with what happened on Monday (October 6). For us, it is a forgotten chapter," CJI Gavai said during the courtroom e...