The apex court bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra will deliver the judgment on a batch of appeals that sought an independent probe in the death of the judge.
Did special CBI judge BH Loya die of a heart attack or is there more to this death than meets the eye? The Supreme Court will answer these questions and more on Thursday as it is set to deliver its verdict in the alleged murder of judge BH Loya.
The apex court bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra will deliver the judgment on a batch of appeals that sought an independent probe in the death of the judge. Senior advocates Dushyant Dave, Indira Jaising, V Giri, PS Surendranath and Pallav Shishodia along with advocate Prashant Bhushan appeared for the petitioners.
Maharashtra, which had submitted a 50-page intelligence report that included four affidavits signed by judges of the Bombay High Court, were represented by senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and Harish Salve along with Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta.
On March 16, the top court reserved its judgment on a plea seeking an independent investigation in the death of special judge BH Loya who allegedly died of a heart attack.
Concluding the arguments for Maharashtra, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi attacked the conspiracy theories put forth by petitioners and targeted an online news portal over their November 2017 article which had first raised the question on judge Loya's death. Rohatgi termed the news articles covering the issue as 'innuendos' and the PILs seeking an investigation as a 'facade'.
The Maharashtra government added that the batch of petitions seeking an independent investigation were nothing but an attempt to target "one individual" (BJP president Amit Shah) in the guise of upholding the rule of law. Rohatgi suggested that the idea behind the petitions were to keep the 'pot boiling'.
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