The Supreme Court on Monday refused to urgently hear a petition seeking a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the activities of persons associated with the satirical political campaign Cockroach Janta Party, Bar and Bench reported.A lawyer representing the petitioner alleged before the bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and VM Pancholi that the social media campaign was tarnishing the image of the judiciary.The advocate submitted that despite Kant having clarified his remarks, a “distorted and malicious narrative is being continued”.In response, the bench told the lawyer not to “take it so sentimentally”, Live Law reported.On Monday, when a separate plea seeking directions to prevent verbal observations made in the court from being monetised for commercial purposes and requesting a probe by the CBI into alleged fake lawyers was mentioned before the bench for urgent listing by another lawyer, the chief justice said that there was no urgency in the matter.Since it was launched in response to reported remarks by Kant on May 15 allegedly comparing some unemployed youngsters to “cockroaches”, the campaign has garnered nearly 23 million followers on Instagram.“There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment or have any place in profession,” PTI had quoted Kant as having said. “Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists and they start attacking everyone.”On May 16, the chief justice claimed that he had been misquoted by sections of the media and that it was baseless to say that he criticised young people in general. Kant claimed that he had specifically criticised “those who have entered professions like the Bar [legal profession] with the aid of fake and bogus degrees”.The campaign, which began on May 16, describes itself as a “political front of the youth, by the youth, for the youth”. It was created by Abhijeet Dipke, a 30-year-old political communications strategist from Pune. He has a background in public relations and journalism, and was part of the Aam Aadmi Party’s social media team.Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.