evidence: NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday (September 10) stayed the proceedings in the criminal defamation complaint against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over a "scorpion sitting on a Shivling" remark made about Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2018. [...] Khan also contended that Tharoor’s remark was derived from a 2012 article about Modi when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat. [...] Advocate Mohammed Ali Khan, appearing for Tharoor, submitted that he merely quoted from an article published by The Caravan magazine in 2012, which contained an alleged remark by an unnamed RSS leader comparing Narendra Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling".