MUMBAI: The son of the late judge Brijmohan

called on Bombay high court chief justice

on Tuesday to convey that the family had no complaints or suspicions about the circumstances of his father’s death. The meeting came on a day Bombay high court Justice

told

that there was no foul play in Loya’s death in the early hours of December 1, 2014.

The judge had died during a trip to Nagpur to attend the wedding of a fellow judge’s daughter. “We have full faith in the members of the judiciary who were with him on the night of November 30,” his son Anuj said in a letter handed over to the chief justice.

He also said the family had no doubts about the integrity of investigative agencies. Anuj told the chief justice that the family was certain that his father had died of a heart attack.

A special CBI judge, Loya was hearing the Sohrabuddin encounter case at the time of his death. A report in a magazine last week insinuating foul play in Loya’s death had triggered a controversy and raised demands for a probe into the circumstances surrounding his death. The report quoted members of Loya’s family purportedly saying they were not convinced about the sequence of events.

Anuj’s statement will help douse the row. Rebutting the report, Justice Gavai, who was present in Nagpur on the day Loya died, told TOIon Tuesday that the latter had complained of chest pain and was taken to hospital. Some senior judges “rushed to the facility as well”, Gavai said, adding, “There was no sign of any cover-up or mystery about how the judge died.”

Gavai also denied that Loya’s body was sent unescorted to his hometown near Latur, as alleged in the report. “After the post-mortem examination was conducted, two judges were among the team that accompanied the body. In fact, even (former Bombay HC) chief justice Mohit Shah was informed about the death. He too reached the hospital,” he said.

Recalling the night of November 30, Justice Gavai said that, after the wedding, Loya went out for a ‘paan’ and returned to chat late into the night. “He returned to his room, and later complained of discomfort around 3.30 am. He was rushed to hospital. I saw his body in the ICU where the doctors tried to resuscitate him, there was no blood on his clothes,” he said.