<p class="title">The hearing in the Koregaon-Bhima violence case in the Supreme Court on Monday saw sharp exchanges between senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan and Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the fag end of the hearing of the plea filed by historian Romila Thapar before a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Dhavan referred to interruptions by the law officer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Mr Mehta should be a commentator in local cricket matches. Don't convert everything into a stupid drama. He did this to me during the hearing of another important case. Let us have a hearing without these interruptions,” Dhavan said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I do not want to stoop to his level. This pedestrian language has been used for judges also," the law officer responded angrily.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This prompted senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the complainant in the violence case, to say "the arguments be confined to the case. I am making this request second time in this court...".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bench fixed the plea of Thapar and the others for final hearing on September 19, while specifying the time limit for advancing of arguments by lawyers including Salve, A M Singhvi, Anand Grover, Dhavan, Mehta and Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh. </p>
<p class="title">The hearing in the Koregaon-Bhima violence case in the Supreme Court on Monday saw sharp exchanges between senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan and Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.</p>.<p class="bodytext">At the fag end of the hearing of the plea filed by historian Romila Thapar before a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Dhavan referred to interruptions by the law officer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Mr Mehta should be a commentator in local cricket matches. Don't convert everything into a stupid drama. He did this to me during the hearing of another important case. Let us have a hearing without these interruptions,” Dhavan said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I do not want to stoop to his level. This pedestrian language has been used for judges also," the law officer responded angrily.</p>.<p class="bodytext">This prompted senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for the complainant in the violence case, to say "the arguments be confined to the case. I am making this request second time in this court...".</p>.<p class="bodytext">The bench fixed the plea of Thapar and the others for final hearing on September 19, while specifying the time limit for advancing of arguments by lawyers including Salve, A M Singhvi, Anand Grover, Dhavan, Mehta and Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh. </p>