R Sriram, a journalist with Economic Times, in a series of tweets, exposed the tricks used by the senior advocates in the Judge Loya case verdict where the Supreme Court showed the propagandists their true place. Sriram, in his tweets, accused the lawyers of attempting to besmirch the judiciary and create an alternate reality.
to besmirch the judiciary and create alternate reality completely blown away! Two aspects to this judgement. One is evidence aspect and second is attempt to drag the judiciary’s name into mud. The SC judges nail the lies in both cases and the results are crystal clear.
— R Sriram (@sriram_ET) April 20, 2018
He says as per the judgement, the SC judges were clear on two fronts, whether Judge Loya’s death was unnatural, suspicious. And other, whether Maharashtra government carried out due process and whether a special investigation was necessary.
Firstly, the SC nailed several key mistakes made by Caravan magazine and reiterated by petitioners who relied entirely on Caravan’s findings! Petitioners point to alleged suspicious behaviour of judges accompanying Judge Loya on that fateful day and who stayed with him!
— R Sriram (@sriram_ET) April 20, 2018
SC pointed out several discrepancies in the report by Caravan magazine and reiterated by petitioners who relied on Caravan’s findings. Example, the incident of ordering an auto rickshaw to take Judge Loya to a nearby hospital. SC pointed out that Judge Loya was taken to hospital in local judge’s car. Another thing petitioners have claimed is that no ECG was performed. The Supreme Court says not only was the ECG performed at the Dande hospital, but the same was even referred to by doctors at Meditrina Hospital.
The judge was called to the guest house where everybody was staying that very morning. Second lie! No ECG was performed. Wrong, ECG was not only performed at the Dande hospital and but this was also seen by doctors at Meditrina Hospital when Judge Loya arrived.
— R Sriram (@sriram_ET) April 20, 2018
SC brutally demolishes this argument! Is it unnatural for friends/colleagues to stay in the same suite when they are travelling? So what if another judge’s name is recorded in official register and not that of Judge Loya? Does it mean Loya never stayed there?
— R Sriram (@sriram_ET) April 20, 2018
Another lie the SC nails is finding blood stains on Judge Loya’s death as well as the allegations that no one accompanied Judge Loya to his ancestral village in Nagpur.
Fifth lie! Loya’s body was not accompanied by anybody when it went to ancestral village from Nagpur. Two local judges of Nagpur accompanied the ambulance when it left for funeral! Sixth lie! Petitioners quote doctors in AIIMS and other places as saying that Loya could not have
— R Sriram (@sriram_ET) April 20, 2018
He also points out how Caravan magazine’s report that Judge Loya could not have died of heart attack highly unscientific and inaccurate.
Caravan’s report that Judge Loya could not have died of heart attack are highly unsicientific and incorrect! So, medical evidence collected by petitioners has been damned! The SC has some harsh words to say about Prashant Bhushan’s attempts to collect medical evidence
— R Sriram (@sriram_ET) April 20, 2018
He says how the petitioners wanted to show that Judge Loya’s death was suspicious and in the process ended up questioning the motives of fellow judges who were accompanying Judges.
They wanted to show that Judge Loya’s death was suspicious! Instead they ended up fighting the whole judiciary and questioning motives of Loya’s fellow judges. SC said this is an attempt to make them co-conspirators in an alleged conspiracy!
— R Sriram (@sriram_ET) April 20, 2018
As Sriram rightly says, one thing to say there is something wrong in the Judge Loya death investigation and completely different to imply the fellow judges who helped him and stayed with him in his last moments as co-conspirators leading to his death.
