New Delhi: The Supreme Court today ruled there would be no independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding judge BH Loya’s death.
The SC today said the plea to investigate the judge’s death was “bereft of any truth”, and added that it was an attempt “to malign the judiciary”. It further said judge Loya died a natural death and there was no doubt about that fact.
The top court dismissed a PIL seeking an independent investigation into the death of the judge, who was trying the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case, when he passed away in December 2014. Senior BJP leader Amit Shah was an accused in the case; he was eventually acquitted.
Loya died allegedly of cardiac arrest on December 1, 2014 in Nagpur where he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague’s daughter. A batch of pleas, including those filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala and Maharashtra-based B S Lone, was filed in the top court seeking an independent probe into Loya’s death in 2014.