New Delhi : Just two days ahead of the Supreme Court Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra hears two petitions on Friday on the mysterious death of Mumbai CBI judge Brijgopal H Loya in December 2014, the Congress threw a bombshell that the judge faced threat of death unless he immediately discharges BJP President Amit Shah in the 2005 fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, his wife and an aide in Gujarat. Shah was discharged in less than a month by the judge appointed after Loya’s death.
Demanding an independent probe and not by CBI or NIA to unravel sordid events behind Loya’s death, the party narrated narrated frantic efforts made by the judge to survive and even tried to get out of the case, seeking help desperately from lawyers, activists and friends
They pointed out that Nagpur’s lawyer Shrikant Khandalkar and retired district judge Prakash Thombre, who had tried to help Loya, also died under mysterious circumstances while third Nagpur activist, lawyer Satish Uke, escaped a deadly accident at his office.
The most sensational disclosure at the Congress Press conference, however, came from Congress MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal. He said Satish Uke, Thombre and one another person came to Delhi and met senior advocate Prashant Bhushan between November 4 and 9 in 2014 to plead to somehow ensure Loya’s safety. They returned without any help and Loya died soon thereafter on December 1.
“They told me Loya was scared because of the case involving high-profile persons. I knew all this but kept it to myself. I thought the time has come to reveal everything. They met Prashant Bhushan also who felt the available material was not sufficient enough to move the court,” Sibal said.
Advocate Uke and another activist Suryakant were present at the Congress press conference along with three other party lawyers — former law minister Salman Khurshid, AICC legal cell chairman and MP Vivek Tankha and Congress chief spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala. They gave a power-point presentation to explain the case and the timeline of Loya’s mysterious death.
