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Brijgopal Harkishan Loya was an Indian judge who served in a special court which deals with matters relating to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He was presiding over the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case during which he died on 1 December 2014 in Nagpur. A bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by the Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, on April 19, 2018, dismissed the public interest petition (PIL), and stated Loya's death to be natural and such petitions to be an attack on the Judiciary. In June 2014, Loya was appointed to the special CBI court on the Sohrabuddin case. Loya allowed Amit Shah, the accused of ordering the murder of Sohrabuddin, who is the national leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), to be present in the court. When Shah did not attend a hearing on 31 October, even though he was in the same city, Loya ordered Shah's lawyers to ensure that he would be present at hearings when he was in the state, and set the date of the next hearing to 15 December, when the verdict would be given.As per the report, Loya travelled to Nagpur to attend a wedding function on 30 November 2014. He stayed at Ravi Bhavan, a state government guest house in Nagpur. On the morning of 1 December 2014, at around 4 am IST, he developed chest pain and was taken to two hospitals. He died at 6.15 am of cardiac arrest. His body was taken to Latur by a family friend. Loya's family claimed that they had seen blood stains on Loya's shirt collar. Medical experts disagreed over whether this was a result of the post-mortem examination. On 30 December 2014, Loya's successor in the special CBI court, M. B. Gosavi, dismissed all charges against Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, and ruled that he need not stand trial.Justice Loya died in 2014, but the issue rose to limelight after Caravan Magazine published an interview with Loya's family on 20 November 2016, in which they raised concerns over his death. Loya's sister claimed that Justice Loya was under immense pressure from the then Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Mohit Shah. She alleged that Justice Mohit Shah offered Justice Loya a 100 crore bribe to give a favorable verdict. The family also raised concerns over the medical reports of Justice Loya, leading to a PIL in the Supreme Court of India. During a Press Conference, the Congress claimed that two other associates, with whom Justice Loya had shared the details of the case, died under mysterious circumstances as well. One of them, was lawyer activist Shrikant Khandalkar and another retired judge Prakash Thombre.

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