The Maharashtra Government on Monday told the Supreme Court the statements of four judges, who were with special CBI judge B H loya on the last day of his life, and had termed his death as "natural", were "unimpeachable".
loya, who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case, had died allegedly of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014 when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter."According to me, statements of four judges (J Kulkarni, J Barde, J Modak and J R R Rathi) are unimpeachable that the death of loya was natural and unfortunate.
"The judges were with loya since November 29 to December 1, 2014. The statements were signed by the judges. Are not they trustworthyIJ" senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for Maharashtra, told a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra.
"If you (the court) want to reject the statements of the judges who said that loya's death was natural, then it has to be prima facie accepted that they were co-conspirators...," he told the bench, also comprising Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud.