New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday demanded an independent probe by a SIT in the death of Judge Loya, who was presiding over the case of Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter at the time of his death. The party fielded its senior lawyers Mr. Kapil Sibal, Mr Salman Khurshid, Mr Vivek Tankha and Mr Randeep Singh Surjewala to address a press conference over the issue.
Speaking to reporters Mr Sibal citing the refernce of Judge Loya’s sister of an offer of bribe of Rs 100 crores said, “We want an independent investigators to probe the death of Judge Loya and the events that followed up. When '100 crore was offered as bribe to Judge Loya matter, why was no FIR filed by the judiciary? Why was no probe carried out? Who was being protected?”
The events as spelled out by the Congress indicated that Judge Loya was under tremendous pressure to decide a case in a particular fashion. Apart from his family members Judge Loya had confided this to three other persons a retired District Judge Prakash Thombre, advocate Shrikant Khandalkar and advocate Satish Uke. Soon after Mr Khandalkar and Mr Thombre started receiving threat calls.
