India, June 5 -- At an event at a university in London where Chief Justice of India Surya Kant was a main speaker, a tense exchange took place between attendees who sought to ask him questions on dissent allegedly being suppressed in India, and the anchor who said those questions were off-topic.

The CJI delivered a lecture on 'Artificial Intelligence and International Law' at the Birkbeck College of University of London.

Video clips of the question being asked, and of student shouting, "Give us some respect please!" - apparently during an interactive part of the event after his lecture - were re-shared by Saurav Das, chief spokesperson of the online movement Cockroach Janta Party.

This movement, which has announced a June 6 protest in ...