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A day after Attorney General KK Venugopal and Bar Council of India chairman Manan Misra said that the ‘rebellion’ in the Supreme Court family is over and that it was a “storm in a tea cup”, Justice Arun Mishra will likely hear a petition on Tuesday that calls for an independent investigation into the death of special judge BH Loya. Loya, who was hearing the CBI’s case of murder against BJP chief Amit Shah, died of a cardiac arrest in Nagpur in December 2014. Court later cleared Shah and several top police officers.
On Monday, Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and the other judges of the Supreme Court had an informal meeting inside the CJI chambers and Justice Arun Mishra is said to have broken down for being “unfairly” targetted by the four judges raising questions about his “competence” and “integrity”.
