New Delhi, Jan. 20 (TNS): India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing its second legal hurdle: The party’s chief Amit Shah has been implicated over the death of B.H. Loya, the judge who was investigating an alleged extra-judicial killing in Gujarat.
BJP crossed the first one with relative ease: The Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) inquiry into the Gujarat riots of 2002. But it remains to be seen whether the party will be able to tide over this one easily.
The SIT, headed by a former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) director R.K. Raghavan and acting under the Supreme Court’s supervision, exonerated Narendra Modi, who was the state’s chief minister at the time of the mob violence.
However, a Vadodara resident, Professor J.S. Bandukwala, a Muslim human rights activist who was nearly killed in the riots, expressed doubts about the fairness of the acquittal while the court’s amicus curiae, Raju Ramachandran, said that several “offences” could have been made out against Modi. Raghavan has recently been appointed High Commissioner to Cyprus.
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In the latest case, too, Loya’s successor as a CBI judge had exonerated Shah. But the case hasn’t been closed like the earlier one because of the doubts expressed about the factors that may have been responsible for the judge’s death from a heart attack. One of them is said to be considerable stress, which the judge was experiencing while handling the high-profile lawsuit.
It is not surprising, therefore, that Judge Loya’s death was one of the reasons behind the decision of four senior Supreme Court judges to go public with their various complaints against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, including one about the allocation of this particular litigation to a “junior” judge.
Dismayed over the accusation, the judge in question has now requested the Chief Justice to let another judge handle the case. But whoever hears it from now on, it will not only be a long-drawn process, but also carried out in the full glare of publicity because of the huge public and media interest.
