Agencies/ NEW DELHI
Amid the reports of mysterious death of former CBI judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya, the CPM on Thursday demanded a high level probe into his death.
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, said, “In the matter of the death of CBI judge Loya, disturbing questions of murder, bribery, subversion of law and manipulation of institutions of our parliamentary democracy at the highest level have arisen, which must be seriously investigated.”
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Raising the demand after Judge Loya’s family went public about the mysterious circumstances in which he died, the CPM said in a statement, “The family members of Justice Loya have alleged that attempts were made to bribe and intimidate him during the course of the trial. The CPI(M) demands that a high-level judicial enquiry be instituted immediately to look into this whole affair.”
Former CBI judge Loya, who was hearing the case of the alleged fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in Gujarat, in 2005, and in which BJP president Amit Shah was an accused, who was later cleared of all charges.
In a series of investigative stories published on The Caravan magazine’s website, the reporter Niranjan Takle has investigated the circumstances surrounding the 2014 death of the judge B.H. Loya.
The 48-year-old judge was reported to have died of a heart attack while on a visit to Nagpur. Over the past year, Takle met various members of the family of Judge Loya, sources from within the hospital where his post-mortem was conducted, as well as the police, to bring to light many troubling facts around the death of Judge Loya, his post mortem and the procedures that were followed after the death.
In the interviews, the family of Judge Loya have raised deeply disturbing questions about the circumstances surrounding the death.