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Supreme Court Issues Stay on Defamation Proceedings Against Shashi Tharoor On September 10, 2024, the Supreme Court of India stayed the defamation proceedings against Shashi Tharoor, a sitting Member of Parliament, while hearing his appeal in a Special Leave Petition (SLP) related to remarks made in 2018. The complaint was filed under Section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), accusing Tharoor of defamation under Sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for statements he made referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Background of the Case The controversy stems from a speech made by Shashi Tharoor on October 28, 2018, where he quoted a metaphor that had previously appeared in an article published in The Caravan Magazine on March 1, 2012. Tharoor referenced the metaphor, allegedly made by an unnamed source in the RSS, describing Prime Minister Modi as a "scorpion sitting on a Shivling," a remark meant to illustrate the difficulty of managing Modi's l...