Update on the Justice Loya judgment.

A three-judge bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AM Khanwilkar, was pronouncing the verdict in the string of writ petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of CBI special judge BH Loya.

The court said there was no no reason to disbelieve the sequence of events leading to the death as narrated by the four judicial officers namely Shrikant Kulkarni, Shriram Modak, R Rathi and Vijay Kumar Barde and the assertions of Bombay High Court Justices Bhushan Gawai and Sunil Shukre.

The SC said the PILs were scandalous and amounted to criminal contempt. The petitioners attempted to malign the judiciary, the court said. The PIL misuse is a matter of concern, the court said.


The Bench also observed that Senior Counsel Dushyant Dave has transversed to the extent of insinuating even judges not associated to the present petitions, and that the petitioners sought to tarnish the institution of judiciary under the garb of an investigation.