India, Nov. 12 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday strongly condemned the incident involving an advocate's attempt to hurl a shoe at Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R. Gavai, saying that such acts tend to penetrate the court's majesty and therefore need to be unequivocally deprecated.

"It tends to penetrate the majesty of the court.. We share your (petitioner's) concerns. It has not hurt members of the bar but the bench as well. It is not about an individual, but the institutions. If such an incident is happening in the society, (it) needs not only (to) be deprecated but certain appropriate measures need to be taken," a bench of chief justice D.K. Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela said.

The court made the observation while he...