evidence: Dr. Shashi Tharoor while addressing the audience at the Bangalore Literature Festival on 28-10-2018 had made an allegedly defamatory comment wherein he quoted lines from an article which had been published by the Caravan magazine which said that "Mr. Modi is like a scorpion sitting on a Shivling; you cannot remove him with your hand, and you cannot hit it with a chappal either." Dr. Shashi Tharoor supported the statement with his own opinions. A complaint under Section 200, CrPC for the commission of offence under Section 499/500, IPC was filed by one of the Vice Presidents (‘VP’) of the Bharatiya Janta Party (‘BJP’) wherein, he stated that the Prime Minister of India is a supreme leader of BJP and that the said statement by the petitioner was baseless, unfounded, misleading, and defamatory. The complaint also mentioned that the unknown RSS source had allegedly made the remarks in 2012, but Dr. Shashi Tharoor made the statement in October 2018 deliberately since PM Modi was leading the country at the time as Prime Minister of India. It was said that the defamatory remark stated to have been made to defame Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also hurt the sentiments of crores of devotees of Lord Shiva, lowered the credit and image of the VP of BJP, RSS, and tarnish the image of BJP in the eyes of the public.