New Delhi, May 25 -- The Supreme Court on Monday, May 25, declined to urgently list two petitions linked to the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) - a satirical social media movement that briefly went viral before its handles were suspended - telling one of the petitioners not to take the matter too emotionally.

Advocate NK Goswami mentioned the first petition before a bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi, submitting that despite the CJI's clarification, a "distorted and malicious narrative" was being kept alive. The CJI was having none of it. "Don't take it so sentimentally," he told the lawyer.

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