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Latest twist in Justice Loya case sees three judges recuse themselves: A look back at how case has progressed

After a division bench recused itself from hearing a petition seeking a probe into CBI judge BH Loya’s death, another judge of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday withdrew from the case. The case of Justice Loya’s death came into the limelight in November 2017 when media reports quoted his sister fuelling suspicion about the circumstances surrounding Loya’s death and its link to the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case. On 2 February this year, the apex court said it was concerned only with the death of Loya and would not go into other aspects including Amit Shah’s discharge in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case. Just three days later, on 12 March, a Mumbai-based lawyers’ body brought on record in the apex court an order of the Bombay High Court to allege that one of the two judges, who had given statement in the Loya death case, had ordered settlement of a criminal case against a top BJP leader in 2014.

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