evidence: The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, stayed the proceedings in the criminal defamation complaint against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over a "scorpion sitting on a Shivling" comment that he had made about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018. [...] The Delhi HC had held that Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor's "scorpion on Shivling" remark in 2018 defamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other members of the BJP Party. [...] In October 2018, at the Bangalore Literature Festival, Shashi Tharoor referred to an unknown Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader, comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling."