The Supreme Court Thursday declined to institute a fresh probe into the death of special CBI judge B.H. Loya.
Judge Loya died on 1 December 2014 while attending a wedding with fellow judges in Nagpur. At the time, he was the special judge in the trial for the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, in which BJP president Amit Shah was a key accused.
Dismissing pleas seeking a fresh probe, a bench comprising Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and justices A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud questioned the credibility of the petitioners.
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“Political scores have to be settled in the great halls of democracy. The petitioners had gone to the extent of insinuating that one man was controlling the entire judiciary,” the court said. “This is an attempt to somehow sensationalise the case, scandalise the court and malign the judges.”
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