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Letter to BS: Judiciary can't afford erosion of public confidence

The verdict, cheered by the Bharatiya Janata Party, did not quite kill the sweeping insinuation that 'one individual' controls the judiciary

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This is with reference to “Apex court dismisses pleas for probe into judge Loya’s death” (April 20). The Supreme Court’s (SC) outright dismissal of a batch of PILs seeking an independent probe into judge B H Loya’s death was unfortunate, to put it mildly. Even though we find it very hard, we have to resign ourselves to it. We are within our rights to hold the view that an independent investigation would have propitiated justice. It is sad that the death of a judge has become a political issue. 

The bench that detected political intentions behind the PILs and echoed Harish