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New Delhi:
The hurling of a slipper at arrested former chief of the
Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi is the
latest in a series of similar attacks - with footwear or in
extreme cases a knife - on well-known personalities by disgruntled
people to vent their anger.
In Tuesday's case, Kapil Thakur, an unemployed man from Madhya
Pradesh, flung a slipper at Kalmadi as he was entering the Patiala
House court premises after his arrest a day earlier by the Central
Bureau of Investigation for alleged financial irregularities in
the granting of contracts for the October 2010 Games.
Thakur first tried to break the police cordon around Kalmadi, and
when he failed, chucked a slipper.
Similarly, on March 24, 2011 yoga guru Baba Ramdev had a close
shave when a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper, Mitu
Singh Rathore, hurled his boot at him angered by his long speech
on corruption instead of on yoga at a camp in Nagpur. Rathore was
a follower of the yoga lessons of Ramdev.
In April 7, 2009, a Sikh journalist, Jarnail Singh, from Hindi
daily Dainik Jagran threw a shoe at union Home Minister P.
Chidambaram who was speaking with journalists at the Congress
headquarters in New Delhi. However, the shoe did not hit the
minister.
Singh was miffed at the CBI's clean chit to Congress leader
Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and wanted to
debate the issue with Chidambaram, who refused.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah was also targeted
on Aug 15, 2010 when a suspended police constable, Abdulla Ahad
Jaan hurled a shoe at him during the Independence Day celebrations
in Srinagar.
The police said that Jaan was mentally unsound and had a case of
extortion filed against him.
However, there have been some cases where the attacks were
violent, threatening the life of the victim.
On Feb 8, 2010 former Haryana DGP S.P.S. Rathore, convicted in the
Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, was attacked and seriously
injured when a young man posing as a journalist stabbed him thrice
in the face with a pocket knife outside a court in Chandigarh.
The assailant identified as 29-year-old Utsav Sharma, a resident
of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, was said to be suffering from a
psychological problem - termed "mood disorder syndrome".
On Jan 25, 2011 Sharma repeated the act. This time he attacked
Rajesh Talwar, father of murdered teen, Aarushi, outside a
Ghaziabad court attacking him with a sharp edged cleaver.
The attack left Talwar bleeding profusely as he suffered injuries
to his face and hand.
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