SC-LOYA-HIGHLIGHTS

Highlights of the Supreme Court's judgement dismissing pleas seeking an independent probe into the death of special CBI judge B H Loya.

* Judge Loya died of "natural causes" and there is no ground for the court to hold that there was reasonable suspicion about the cause or circumstances of death which would merit a further inquiry.

* Petitions moved by political rivals to settle scores which was a serious attempt to scandalise the judiciary.

*A "veiled attempt" was made to launch a "frontal attack" on the independence of judiciary through the pleas.

* No reason for the court to doubt the clear and consistent statements of the four judicial officers -- Shrikant Kulkarni, S M Modak, Vijay C Barde and R R Rathi -- who were with Loya on December 1, 2014 when he died at Nagpur.

* Four judicial officers, who accompanied judge B H Loya to the hospital after he complained of chest pain in early hours on December 1, 2014, acted in "good faith" to ensure medical treatment to their colleague and their conduct cannot be questioned.

* SC rejects theory that no electrocardiogram (ECG) of judge B H Loya was carried out.

* NGO Centre For Public Interest Litigation -- Prashant Bhushan is associated with it -- also rapped for carefully orchestrated attempt to create evidence to cast a doubt on the circumstances leading to the death of Judge Loya.

* Petitioners misused the PILs in Loya case.

* "Brazen mis-utilisation" of PILs, especially at the behest of political or business rivals.

* Frivolous petitions, instituted at the behest of business or political rivals to settle scores behind the "facade" of a PIL, poses a grave danger to the credibility of judicial process.

* Business rivalries have to be resolved in a competitive market for goods and services. Political rivalries have to be resolved in the great hall of democracy when the electorate votes its representatives in and out of office.

* There is a danger that the judicial process will be reduced to a charade, if disputes beyond the ken of legal parameters occupy the judicial space.