Team  SoOLEGAL

Judge Loya Death: Petition in Bombay HC Seeks 7-Judge Bench Hearing

Team SoOLEGAL 7 Dec 2018 10:50am

Judge Loya Death: Petition in Bombay HC Seeks 7-Judge Bench Hearing

A petition has been filed before the Bombay HC seeking constitution of a 7-judge bench to hear the case and appointment of a Special Investigation Team of three IPS officers from non-BJP ruled states to investigate the death of Judge B.H Loya.

Sanjay Bhalerao has filed the petition through his advocate Nitin Satpute. Bhalerao had previously filed a petition regarding the violence at Bhima-Koregaon on January 1, 2018. In this petition, Bhalerao has named 24 respondents, including the Supreme Court of India, Niranjan Takle (the journalist who wrote Caravan’s report regarding mysterious circumstances surrounding Judge B.H. Loya’s death) and Advocate Satish Uke.

The petitioner has sought directions to respondents Advocate Satish Uke and Niranjan Takle to submit all the relevant documents regarding the case to help in the investigation.

Firstly, the Latur Bar Association’s resolution demanding a court-monitored probe into Judge Loya’s death and secondly, Justice AP Shah’s statement at a book launch that if allegations made by the family members of Judge BH Loya were not investigated, it would send a wrong message to the judiciary, especially the lower judiciary.

Bhalerao has also sought action against high court judges, registry and officials of the State Home Department and government lawyers associated in any way with Judge Loya’s case. The petitioner prayed for the high court to either transfer the judges who have spoken to the media about Judge Loya’s death or not to assign them any work. The petition prayed:

·         The Hon’ble High Court may direct the Registry not to assign work to the persons from the Registry of the Hon’ble High Court who was involved in any work of the incidence of Judge Loya.

·         The State of Maharashtra and Home Department may not allow any work to the police officials who made a discreet inquiry without consideration of material documents and whose inquiry report filed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

·         The Department of Law and Judiciary, State of Maharashtra, Mumbai, and Nagpur may be directed not to assign any work to Desk Officer Smt. E.M. Bhargav and Additional Government Pleader Adv. Smt. Ketaki Joshi alias Smt. Jayashri Uttamani should be restrained from entering into any government office related with her work as Additional Government Pleader which may directly or indirectly touch the Judge Loya issue.

The petition also sought police protection for the petitioner, his advocate, and Judge Loya’s family as their “life was in danger”.

Source: LiveLaw



Tagged: Bombay HC   Judge B.H Loya   Judge Loya Death   7 judge bench   advocate Nitin Satpute   Advocate Satish Uke   Advocate Niranjan Takle  
Did you find this write up useful? YES 0 NO 0
×

C2RMTo Know More

Something Awesome Is In The Work

0

DAYS

0

HOURS

0

MINUTES

0

SECONDS

Sign-up and we will notify you of our launch.
We’ll also give some discount for your effort :)

* We won’t use your email for spam, just to notify you of our launch.
×

SAARTHTo Know More

Launching Soon : SAARTH, your complete client, case, practise & document management SAAS application with direct client chat feature.

If you want to know more give us a Call at :+91 98109 29455 or Mail info@soolegal.com