The Supreme Court Tuesday issued notice on a plea seeking CBI probe into how courtroom interactions including the recent “metaphorical expressions” about cockroaches are increasingly “meme-ified, mimicked, commercially circulated, and transformed into viral digital content detached from constitutional and procedural context”, undermining constitutional promise of justice. The petitioner referred to the top court’s proceedings on May 15 during which the CJI had made the “cockroaches” remark. During the course of spontaneous courtroom interaction, certain metaphorical (cockroach) expressions were used in the context of institutional frustration and procedural anxiety. However, isolated fragments of oral proceedings were thereafter selectively clipped, meme-ified, mimicked, commercially circulated, and transformed into viral digital content detached from constitutional and procedural context.” Such expressions have never been interpreted through fragmented literalism but through constitutional context and jurisprudential understanding.”