<p>The Supreme Court on Monday extended by four weeks the stay on the trial court proceedings against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor in a <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/remarks-against-pm-modi-supreme-court-stays-defamation-case-against-shashi-tharoor-23390054" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">defamation case</a> filed for his alleged "scorpion on Shivling" remark targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.</p>
<p>A bench comprising Justices Hrishikesh Roy and SVN Bhatti has granted four weeks' time to <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/man-4-daughters-found-dead-in-delhis-vasant-kunj-police-suspect-suicide-23402059" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Delhi police</a> and the complainant to file their responses to Tharoor's plea.</p>
<p>"The interim order (of stay on the defamation proceedings) to continue," directed the bench.</p>
<p>The counsel appearing for Delhi police argued the main issue in the case was whether complainant Rajiv Babbar, a BJP leader, was an aggrieved party.</p>
<p>The top court, on September 10, had stayed the proceedings before the trial court in the defamation case filed against Tharoor.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/shashi-tharoor-visits-matoshree-meets-aaditya-thackeray-during-mumbai-visit-23348656" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Congress MP</a> had moved the top court against the high court's August 29 order, which refused to quash the defamation proceedings against him.</p>
<p>Tharoor had sought setting aside the trial court's April 27, 2019, order summoning him as an accused in the criminal defamation complaint.</p>
<p>The complaint was filed against Tharoor in the trial court by Babbar, who claimed that his religious sentiments were hurt by the Congress leader's statement.</p>
<p>In October 2018, Tharoor had claimed that an unnamed RSS leader had compared Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling". The Congress leader had said it was an "extraordinarily striking metaphor".</p>
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