Unemployed youngsters like ‘cockroaches’, become media, activists and ‘attack the system’: CJI

Chief Justice Surya Kant on Friday described some unemployed youngsters as “cockroaches”, saying that they go on to become social media or Right to Information Act activists and start attacking the “system”, PTI reported.

The remarks were made when a bench of Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi pulled up a lawyer for filing a petition seeking directions to the Delhi High Court to designate him as a senior advocate, The Indian Express reported.

The chief justice said that the judges were aware of posts on social media “against the system”.

There were already enough “parasites” in society attacking the judiciary, he said, adding that lawyers should not join hands with them.

“There are youngsters like cockroaches, who don’t get any employment or have any place in profession,” PTI quoted Kant as saying. “Some of them become media, some of them become social media, RTI activists and other activists and they start attacking everyone.”

The petitioner told the bench that it was the third time that he was moving the Supreme Court, The Indian Express reported. He argued that the High Court had failed to comply with an earlier direction of the top court to reconsider the matter expeditiously, and had deferred or rejected applications.

The counsel for the High Court told the bench that interviews for the position...

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