The supreme court dismissed all petitions seeking a Special Investigation Team probe into the death of Judge B.H Loya on Thursday.
A bench of CJI Dipak Misra, Justices A M Khanwilkar, and D Y Chandrachud said that during the hearings council forgot to maintain institutional civility towards Supreme Court judges and made ignorant allegations.
“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,” the bench claimed.
The Supreme Court judgment slammed the petitioners for “maligning” the judiciary.
The SC said PILs, which were meant to provide a platform to the common man who sometimes goes unheard, have now become an industry to settle scores be it political or personal. It said the judiciary is unnecessarily being made to spend precious time looking into such PILs which leads to delay in giving justice in other cases.
The judge Loya case has created a lot of controversies after he died allegedly due to a cardiac arrest in Nagpur on 1 December 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague’s daughter.
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