Should Judge Loya death case be probed? SC to hear review plea today
July 31, 2018 09:19
The Supreme Court will today hear a plea seeking review and recall of its judgment that held that Special CBI Court Judge BH Loya had met with natural death and that a PIL was misused for advancing political agenda and to scandalise the judiciary.
Judge Loya died of a cardiac failure on December 1, 2014. He was conducting a trial in a case related to the alleged fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in November 2005.
The plea was filed by the Bombay Lawyers Association
A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, which had earlier rejected the plea for a SIT probe into the judges death, will hear the plea on Tuesday.
The top court in its April 19 judgment had said: It gives a sense of anguish that the proceedings were converted to scandalise the judiciary bordering on contempt.
The Bombay Lawyers Association was one of the petitioners who pleaded for a Special Investigation Team probe into the death, which the Supreme Court declined.
The recall plea filed by senior counsel Dushyant Dave said that the judgment and order passed by this court requires serious reconsideration and upon such reconsideration deserve to be recalled in the interest of justice and in larger public interest.
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