Loya's son(Eds: With additional inputs)Mumbai, Jan 14 (PTI) The son of special CBI judge B HLoya said today that although he and his family had earlierbeen suspicious about his father's sudden death three yearsago, they no longer harboured doubts.
Anuj Loya, 21, while stating that his family was "pained"by the things happening over his father's death, also saidNGOs and politicians should stop "harassing" his familymembers over the issue.
"I had an emotional turmoil, hence I had suspicions abouthis death. But now we don't have any doubts about the way hedied," the son of the late judge told reporters here.
"Earlier, my grandfather and aunt had some doubts abouthis death, which they shared. But now neither of them has anydoubts," he said.
The deceased judge's father and Anuj's aunt had allegedfoul play in his death.
Judge Loya, who was hearing the sensitive SohrabuddinSheikh "fake encounter" case, had allegedly died of a cardiacarrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014, when he had gone toattend the wedding of a colleague's daughter. BJP chief AmitShah, an accused in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, hadbeen discharged.
With tears in his eyes, Anuj said, "We faced somepressure from politicians and NGOs. We don't want to nameanyone, but please excuse my family from continuously askingabout my father's death."Anuj is a second-year student of Law in a Pune-basedcollege.
"By going through some media reports and everything, (my)family is facing lots of troubles...because of all the thingshappening. We don't have any allegations against anyone. Weare really pained to...like...we are already trying to get outof these things.""...I request you people, please don't try to harass usor trouble us. I want to convey to you all," he said.
K B Katake, a retired district judge and family friendof Loya, who was also present at the conference, said, "The85-year-old father of B H Loya is being harassed by somepeople, who are asking some questions in respect of death ofhis only son. And that creates panic in the family.""There was no suspicion in the minds of any family memberin respect of death of justice Loya. However, the people areharassing and making family members panic," he alleged.
"His (Anuj's) mother is ill. Everyday she is required totake medical treatment. On behalf of Loya's family, I requestyou all media people to convey to those NGOs, lawyers andpoliticians not to go to his family, not to meet them andharass them like this, in respect of death of Mr Loya," theformer district judge said.
Anuj's press conference comes two days after fourseniormost judges of the Supreme Court mounted a virtualrevolt against the Chief Justice of India, raising questionson "selective" case allocation and certain judicial orders.
One of the four senior-most judges, who held anunprecedented press conference on Friday, had said that thematter involving judge Loya's death was one of the issuesunderpinning their differences with Chief Justice Dipak Misra.
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