NEW DELHI:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the hearing on two petitions seeking an independent probe into the death of CBI Special Judge B H Loya in 2014. The court has not fixed any specific date for the next hearing in the case.
The petitions were filed in the top court last Thursday and allocated to Justices Arun Mishra and Mohan M Shantanagoudar the next day. The bench on Friday sought the Maharashtra government’s response on the pleas.
In response to senior advocate Harish Salve, who appeared for Maharashtra, placing documents relating to his death in a sealed envelope before the court, the two-judge bench directed him to supply documents to the petitioners. Justice Mishra observed it was “a matter where they should see everything”.
The matter, which was originally listed for Monday, was deferred to today as Justice Shantanagoudar was not available.
On Friday, following the assignment of the case, four top judges of the Supreme Court held an unprecedented press conference in which they said they had approached Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra regarding the same. Although they did not specify the case, Justice Gogoi replied in the affirmative when asked if it was about the case on the death of Judge Loya.
“Even this morning, on a particular issue, four of us went and met the Chief Justice of India with a specific request which we could not unfortunately convince him that we were right. Therefore, we were left with no choice than to communicate it to the nation that please take care of the institution and take care of the nation, because we have heard a lot of wise men talking in this country earlier,” Justice Chelameswar had said, on behalf of them
