Mocking Congress, RS Prasad says the Judge Loya case was politically driven to promote Congress’ interest and not public interest

NewsBharati    19-Apr-2018
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New Delhi, April 19: “Rahul Gandhi should apologize to the country for questioning the testimonies of Bombay High Court and defaming our party ace leader Amit Shah in Justice Loya case,” said Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad while addressing the press conference over the Justice Loya verdict given by Supreme Court. 
 
Addressing the conference, RS Prasad said that Senior leaders of BJP did not speak because the matter was in court. Rahul Gandhi visited the President and made various allegations, we waited for the verdict. Four judicial officers' reports were examined and the court has stated the procedure was followed, he added.
  

Further, he continued saying that “we did not comment on the case till it was pending in Supreme Court.” RS Prasad said that the BJP condemns the reckless allegations made against the party president in the court proceedings.

 

This was a politically motivated case, not a public-driven case, RS Prasad hitted out at Congress, saying the case was not in the interest of public but was in the interest of the Congress. The case was filed to harm Bhartiya Janata Party and BJP Prez Amit Shah. The case filed to taint the image of BJP ace leader Amit Shah,” he added further.

Further RS Prasad questioned Rahul Gandhi upon the verdict given by Supreme Court today. The Supreme Court ruled that there would be no independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding judge BH Loya's death.

The SC said that the plea to investigate the judge's death was “bereft of any truth”, + and added that it was an attempt “to malign the judiciary”. It further said judge Loya died a natural death and there was no doubt about that fact. The top court dismissed a PIL seeking an independent investigation into the death of the judge, who was trying the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case, when he passed away in December 2014. Senior BJP leader Amit Shah was an accused in the case; he was eventually acquitted.

Loya died allegedly of cardiac arrest on December 1, 2014 in Nagpur where he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter.

A batch of pleas, including those filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawala and Maharashtra-based B S Lone, was filed in the top court seeking an independent probe into Loya's death in 2014.

The SC said PILs, which were meant to provide help to the downtrodden and voiceless, have now become an industry to settle scores political and personal. It said the judiciary is unnecessarily being made to spend precious time looking into such PILs which leads to delay in giving justice in other cases.

In the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case, BJP leader Amit Shah along with Rajasthan Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria, Rajasthan-based businessman Vimal Patni, former Gujarat police chief P C Pande, Additional Director General of Police Geeta Johri and Gujarat police officers Abhay Chudasama and N K Amin have already been discharged.

Several accused, including police personnel, are currently facing trial for their involvement in the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin, his wife Kausar Bi and their associate Tulsiram Prajapati in Gujarat.