The mystery surrounding the death of CBI Special Judge Brijgopal Harkishan Loya—who at the time of his death was hearing the sensitive Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case in which BJP president Amit Shah was an accused—has taken yet another dark turn. Judge Loya allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014, when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter. Earlier, doubts were raised over an electrocardiography (ECG) done on Loya at Dande Hospital, the first of the two Nagpur hospitals he was taken to after he allegedly complained of chest pain in the early hours of December 1, 2014.

Now it transpires that the station case diary for the entire year of 2014 of Sitabuldi Police Station in Nagpur —where the first police records in the case were filed— has gone missing. The case had been transferred from Sitabuldi to the Sadar Police Station in Nagpur on December 1. The original death report (Marg Khabri), which was in the case papers at Sadar Police Station, has been submitted in the Supreme Court by the Maharashtra Government. The Caravan reported that “The submitted documents include an Accidental Death Report registered at Nagpur’s Sitabuldi police station, which has jurisdiction over Meditrina [Hospital]. In it, Loya’s time and date of death is recorded as 6.15 am on “30/11/2014”—a day before he died.”

But the carbon copy of the original which remains at Sitabuldi Police Station has discrepancies from this original. National Herald has not seen the original death report described by The Caravan which was submitted in the Supreme Court; however, NH has accessed the carbon copy of this original death report at Sitabuldi Police Station, bearing the police station’s stamp. On close examination, it appears that the date of the incident and date of registration of the case was purportedly first recorded as November 30, 2014 but was later overwritten to December 1, 2014. The time of incident on the carbon copy has been recorded as 4 am, however the time of registration of the death report on the carbon copy was purportedly first entered as 6:30 am but was later overwritten to show 8.30 am. The time of death has been recorded as 6:15 am.