evidence: New Delhi: In a relief for Shashi Tharoor, the Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed proceedings before a trial court in a defamation case lodged against the Congress MP for his alleged "scorpion on Shivling" remarks targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [...] While refusing to quash the proceedings against Tharoor, the high court 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 RSS leader had compared Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling". The Congress leader had said it was an "extraordinarily striking metaphor". PTI PKS NSD NSD (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)