India, Oct. 9 -- Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Thursday said a first information report (FIR) should be filed against the lawyer who tried to attack Chief Justice of India BR Gavai with a shoe.

Athawale said he would pursue the registration of a case against the accused lawyer.

"This incident is condemnable, and it is for the first time that such an instance has happened against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court," the minister told reporters.

The minister said CJI Gavai was from the Dalit community and had risen to the top position on his own merit, something that was not palatable to many people from the so-called upper case.

"And many people from the Savarna Samaj have not liked t...