New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review its order dismissing the plea for an independent or CBI probe into the death of CBI special judge B.H. Loya in mysterious circumstances. A three-judge bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. Chandrachud dismissed the petition filed by the Bombay Lawyers Association seeking review of its judgement.
The Bench after perusing the petition in the chamber held that there are no merits in the petition seeking review of the April 19 verdict. “We have carefully gone through the review petition and the connected papers, but we see no reason to interfere with the order impugned. The review petition is, accordingly, dismissed,” the bench said. The court by an order on April 19 had ruled that “documentary material on the record indicates that the death of Judge Loya was due to natural causes”
The petition while reiterating the demand for CBI probe also sought deletion of the court’s findings in the judgement that the petitions were a “veiled attempt to launch a frontal attack on the independence of the judiciary and to dilute the credibility of judicial institutions”.
