Sikh Journalist Throws Shoe at Home Minister Chidambaram - News-Pictures-Video

New Delhi: A large crowd gathered at the Tughlak road police station on Tuesday after a Sikh journalist was detained for hurling a shoe at Home minister P Chidambaram at a press conference here.

The crowd gathered when they heard that a Sikh journalist from a Hindi daily, Jarnail Singh, had been taken to the police station after he had been detained.

Some members of the crowd raised slogans in support of Singh while a number of mediamen and curious onlookers gathered around the police station complex. Singh was later released by police after a brief detention.

Singh's brother, his lawyer Sunita Tiwari and one of his colleagues were also at the police station.

"Whatever the journalist has done is appropriate. He has vented out the anguish of the Sikhs against all those who perpetrated the anti-Sikh riots," said Babu Singh Dukhiya who heads an NGO, National 1984 Victims Justice and Welfare society.

Singh had hurled a shoe at Chidambaram to protest against CBI's clean chit to senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler accused in 1984 anti- Sikh riots case, but it missed the target. Chidambaram said "I forgive him" after the incident occurred at the AICC headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.