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SC to deliver verdict on Judge Loya's death on Thursday

Judge Loya died in 2014

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday announced that they will deliver the verdict in the judge Loya death case on Thursday at 10.30 am.

The verdict will determine whether Judge Loya died of a heart attack or whether he was murdered.

Last month, the apex court had reserved its order in a plea seeking an independent investigation into Judge Loya’s death.

The apex court had earlier asked the Maharashtra Government to submit the postmortem report of the CBI judge, who had died in alleged suspicious circumstances in 2014, citing that the "matter was very serious."

As per reports, Maharashtra-based journalist B.S. Lone and activist Tehseen Poonavala had filed independent pleas seeking a fair probe into the death of Judge Loya, who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, involving various police officers and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah.

In a press conference held on January 12, Justices Madan B. Lokur, Kurien Joseph, Ranjan Gogoi and Jasti Chelameswar questioned the conduct of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra, alleging that selective Benches were being appointed to preside over certain cases in the apex court.Justice Loya's death is one among the certain cases hinted by the four judges.

An NGO, which had sought an independent probe into the alleged mysterious death of special CBI judge B H Loya had claimed in the Supreme Court that he might have died due to poisoning as he had complained of chest congestion.

It said that Loya's ECG and histopathology report indicate that he did not die due to a heart attack which means that he may have died of poisoning .

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Candrachud was told by advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), an intervenor in the case, that reports were shown to the doctors and forensic experts, who were of the opinion that there was no sign of heart attack.

Loya, who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, 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.

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