A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed the public interest litigations (PILs) seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya. Terming the petitions “frivolous and motivated”, Justice DY Chandrachud said that these litigations were an attempt by the petitioners to “malign” the judiciary.
Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and justices AM Khanwilkar and Chandrachud had reserved their judgement in the judge Loya case on March 16. Chandrachud, while reading the judgement, lambasted the petitioners and said that there is “no reason to disbelieve the sequence of events leading to the death as narrated by the four judicial officers namely Shrikant Kulkarni, Shriram Modak, R. Rathi and Vijay Kumar Barde and the assertions of Bombay High Court Justices Bhushan Gawai and Sunil Shukre.”
