Nation View: Supreme Court rejects PILs seeking probe into Judge Loya's death

Nation View: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the PILs seeking probe into the death of special CBI judge BH Loya, ruling that he had died of “natural causes”, as it held that the petitions were moved by political rivals to settle scores which was a serious attempt to scandalise the judiciary and obstruct the course of justice through a “frontal attack” on its independence. Loya, who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, had died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague’s daughter. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Mishra was attacked by four fellow apex court judges led by Justice J Chelameswar in an unprecedented presser on January 12 over allocation of cases and the hearing of the Loya matter was one of the bones of contention.