Judge Loya death case: SC says matter ‘very serious’, seeks reply from Maharashtra govt on probe pleas

Judge Loya died in Nagpur on December 1, 2014, when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague’s daughter. The issue came in the spotlight in November last year after a report by Caravan magazine linking the circumstances surrounding his death to the trial in the Sohrabuddin case.

Maharashtra-based journalist BR Lone had filed an independent plea seeking a fair probe into the alleged mysterious death of Loya.

Lone’s petition was mentioned before a bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud on January 11 and it sought a probe saying there were several contradictions emerging in the matter.

The second litigation was filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla, who in his plea contended that the circumstances revolving around the death of the judge were “questionable, mysterious and contradicting”.

(with PTI inputs)