New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- The Supreme Court today asked BJP leader Rajiv Babbar to consider closing the defamation case filed against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his 2018 remark comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a "scorpion sitting on a Shivling."
A Bench comprising Justice M.M. Sundresh and Justice N. Kotiswar Singh questioned the sensitivity surrounding such statements and observed, "Let us close all these things.
Why to get so touchy about all this? This way, administrators and judges come in the same group and have thick skin."
The court was hearing Tharoor's appeal challenging a Delhi High Court order dated August 9, 2023, which had refused to quash the defamation case.
The High Court had ruled that Tharoor's statement amou...