evidence: New Delhi: The Supreme Court has agreed to consider listing on Tuesday a plea of Congress MP Shashi Tharoor against a Delhi High Court verdict that refused to quash the defamation proceedings against him on a complaint lodged over his alleged "scorpion on Shivling" remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [...] It had said prima facie, imputations like "scorpion on Shivling" against the prime minister were "despicable and deplorable". [...] In October 2018, Tharoor had claimed that an unnamed Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader had compared Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling". The Congress leader had said it was an "extraordinarily striking metaphor".