The Supreme Court rejects the plead for an independent probe into the death of CBI Justice BH Loya. A three-judge bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra is hearing the plea.

The bench said that the four judges were with Justice Loya constantly and there is no reason to doubt their statement. The court said that doubting the judges' statement is doubting their integrity.

The court said there is no merit in the petitions and there is no reason to doubt the statements of sitting Judges. The attempt of the petitioners was to malign the judiciary, said the SC while dismissing the petitions seeking for a SIT probe 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 the official records, Justice Loya died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur in 2014, a day after he attended the wedding and reception of his colleague's daughter.

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