Bhushan questions ECG report in Loya death case

Satya Prakash

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Tribune News Service

New Delhi, March 8

Noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan today questioned official version in the death case of CBI Special Judge BH Loya, saying the report of an ECG conducted on the judge published by an English daily “did not show any signs of heart attack”.

“It needs to be probed how a story based on the ECG report was planted in the newspaper,” Bhushan told a three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra. Loya had died of a cardiac arrest on December 1, 2014, in Nagpur where he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague’s daughter. He was handling the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which various police officers and BJP chief Amit Shah were named. Shah was later exonerated.

After Loya’s death, Special Judge MB Gosavi had discharged Shah and some other accused. Bhushan, who has filed a personal affidavit in the case, told the Bench that he had taken opinion of several cardiologists on the said ECG report and all of them said there was nothing in the ECG to indicate that the patient had suffered a heart attack within one or two hours. He also sought to contradict the heart attack theory by contending that histopathology report too did not support the official version of Loya’s death.

As his arguments remained inconclusive, the CJI ordered the matter to be posted for hearing on Friday.