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Judges conduct can't be questioned: Supreme Court

Attempts were made to scandalise judiciary by levelling serious allegations against judicial officers and judges of the Bombay HC.

New Delhi: Calling them frivolous and “bereft of any truth”, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected pleas seeking an independent inquiry into the circumstances of the death of Mumbai judge Brijgopal Harikishan Loya in 2014 around the time when he was hearing the Sohrabuddin “fake” encounter case that involved BJP chief Amit Shah as a suspect.

The top court took umbrage at senior advocate Dushyant Dave, who, while arguing for some of the petitioners, had sought to cross-examine the four Maharashtra judges who had accompanied Loya to the hospital.

The bench said that the conduct of Maharashtra judges — Shrikant Kulkarni, S.M. Modak, V.C. Barde and Roopesh Rathi — cannot be questioned and there was no reason to doubt the veracity of their statements.

Attempts were made to scandalise judiciary by levelling serious allegations against judicial officers and judges of the Bombay HC, it said. Advocates of the petitioners launched a frontal attack on the judiciary by egging the Supreme Court to disbelieve the judicial officers who accompanied Loya to Nagpur and stayed with him at a guest house and said that the Loya died of a heart attack, the bench said.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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