A journalist throws his shoe at India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram during a news conference in New Delhi in this video frame grab from Ani TV released April 7, 2009. A Sikh journalist threw shoe at Chidambaram during a news conference on Tuesday after getting angry with the minister's reply to a question about the 1984 riots in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed. The shoe missed Chidambaram, who lent back to avoid it. He later smiled and asked security guards to take the reporter out of the room. [Agencies]

    A journalist throws his shoe at India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram during a news conference in New Delhi in this combo picture made from two video frame grabs from ANI TV taken and released April 7, 2009.[Agencies]

    Security guards take out a journalist from the venue of a news conference after he threw his shoe at India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram in New Delhi in this video frame grab from ANI TV released April 7, 2009.[Agencies]

    Police remove a journalist (C) from the venue of a news conference after he threw his shoe at India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram in New Delhi April 7, 2009.[Agencies]

    India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram (L) gestures as a journalist (2nd R) is escorted away from the venue of a news conference after he threw his shoe at Chidambaram in New Delhi April 7, 2009.[Agencies]