Bengaluru: Former Bengaluru Police Commissioner and BJP leader Bhaskar Rao has admired advocate Rakesh Kishore, who had attempted to hurl a shoe towards Chief Justice of India B R Gavai.

As his post drew sharp reaction, Rao apologised. \"Even if it is legally & terribly wrong, I admire your courage, at your age, to take a stand and live by it, irrespective of consequences,\" Rao said on Tuesday in a post on ‘X’.

The post enraged many ‘X’ users. Expressing shock, Nitin Seshadri said, \"Sir I didn't expect this from you. Wasn't this similar to the language used to defend Nathuram Godse & Narayan Apte in their trials?\" One user tagged the Bengaluru police saying, \"@BlrCityPolice, you need to act upon this tweet!\" Rao later apologised in a subsequent social media post on Wednesday.

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