New Delhi sources stated that Supreme Court dismissed a plea for a Special Investigation Team probe into the alleged mysterious death of special CBI Judge B.H. Loya. Meanwhile Loya had allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter. Moreover as per report a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud had on March 16 reserved the judgment on the pleas.
Earlier the Maharashtra government had argued in the apex court that all pleas seeking an independent probe into Loya's death were motivated and aimed at targeting "one individual" in the guise of upholding the rule of law. Media reports that the issue of Loya's death had come under spotlight in November last year after media reports quoting his sister had fuelled suspicion about the circumstances surrounding it and its link to the Sohrabuddin case.
Moreover Loya's son had on January 14 said in Mumbai that his father had
died of natural causes. Furthermore in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter
case, BJP president Amit Shah along with Rajasthan home minister Gulabchand
Kataria, additional director general of police Geeta Johri and Gujarat police
officers Abhay Chudasama and N K Amin have already been discharged.
