New Delhi: A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra will hear public interest litigations (PILs) seeking independent probe into the death of CBI judge BH Loya.
This comes after Justice Arun Mishra recused himself from the case last week.
The recusal follows allegations by four top Supreme Court judges that the CJI was arbitrarily assigning important cases to select benches.
Judge BH Loya was a special CBI court judge who died in 2014. He was then presiding over the alleged fake encounter case of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah was among the accused named in the case. He was subsequently discharged.
Loya’s death, initially reported to be due to heart attack, came under spotlight after media reports of suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
Two petitions were filed demanding an investigation into the suspicious death of judge Loya – one by a Congress activist Tehseen Poonawalla, and another by a Mumbai-based journalist Bandhuraj Sambhaji Lone. The cases were assigned to the bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Mohan M Shantanagoudar.
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