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Judge Loya death case: Lawyer says hospital reports replete with conflicting “facts”

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9 years ago

February 9, 2018

Judge Loya death case: Lawyer says hospital reports replete with conflicting “facts”

The Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar, D Y Chandrachud on Friday (February 9) continued hearing of the plea seeking independent probe into the mysterious death of Justice B G Loya who was handling the Sohrabuddin Seikh fake encounter case.

Senior advocate Indira Jaising started her depositions on Friday. She said she would be dealing with two different sets of submissions, one dealing with facts and the other dealing with the law.

She referred to Section 174 of the CrPC and emphasized on the “accident” as mentioned in the bare provision. Accidental death report raises a doubt, she submitted. She said that the provision of the sub section 3 of the relevant section has been clearly violated. She said relatives include brother, sister, children and spouse under the explanation of the section.

On page 90 of the report that provision has been violated, she said.

She said that accidental death has been reported in the very first police document. There has been an error in the name here. While the judge’s actual name was Brij Gopal Loya, in ten documents it has been mentioned as Brij Mohan Loya. This raises doubts, she said.

According to provision of law, immediate intimation was supposed to have been given to the nearest executive magistrate (for accidental death). She said that this page immediately triggers section 174. Also, that the name of the deceased has been wrongly mentioned is a suspicious thing.

She refers to Inquest Panchnama which has not been reproduced.

She submitted that in page 23 (death investigation report) the inquest panchnama has not been produced. This pertains to his personal belongings. She said that there is a discrepancy even where the clothes are described. One document says brown pants and another says grey pants.

A copy of the post mortem report has been given along with the missing page.

She referred to time of postmortem which was done between 10:30 and 10:55am. She also submitted that on page 25 of the postmortem report this correction of the name has been referred to.

The name of the police station varies too.

Also, the case diary, which is most critical, has not been produced. Cause of death was coronary artery insufficiency. That was the postmortem report. Yet, this was mentioned as an accidental death.

She said that the final report and inquest report does not comply with section 174 CrPC. SS Gajang was the inquiry officer.

She then came to the ECG. When was it done? Why has the report not been produced, she asked. “And why was it on 2/2/2016 and not earlier?” she asked.

She said that there were several reasons to suspect the inquiry. She asked why the ECG report was not produced even though it was a case of a heart attack. Was it done at the Dande or at the Medetrina hospital? That too is not clear.

The statement that an ECG was done is actually as per hearsay.

ECG not produced
Statement made contradicts the statement made by a judge RR Rathi. That, so far, is the most credible statement of the case.

And Rathi, who is an eye witness, has stated that ECG was not done as the machine was broken.

Jaising submitted that when Justice Loya complained of chest pains, he was taken to Dande hospital. The lift was not working so he climbed the stairs. An assistant doctor attended him, who tried to do the ECG but was unsuccessful because the machine was broken.

The assistant doctor gave two injections of antacids and wasted time. RR Rathi, being an eye witness says no ECG was done.

However, Dr Dande, being a hearsay witness says ECG was done.

After continuous complain, Justice Loya was taken to Medetirina Hospital where he was declared dead due to heart attack.

This contradictory statement raises questions.

She submitted that the cause of death under Section 174, which was to be submitted, is not known. The clinical history is not known and therefore it is uncertain to tell that what was the cause of death.

Statement of judge Rathi is of most important as he considers the death of Loya as unfortunate.

The judge’s sister, who is a doctor has gone on record saying he had no history of cardiac problems. She has said that has had a clean clinical history. Also, no doctor at either hospital had recorded any history of the patient.

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