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Tehseen Poonawalla v. Union of India and Anr.

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Reported as [2018] 9 S.C.R. 1
Bench Dipak Misra, A.M. Khanwilkar and Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud JJ.
Decided 19 April 2018

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we have come to the conclusion th at there is absolutely no merit in the writ petitions.

Judgment, page 104

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Constitution of India – Art.32 – Judge Loya death c ase – Writ petitions seeking inquiry into the circumstances of the death of the Judge who was presiding over the criminal trial where in one of the accused was the National President of the Bhara tiya Janata Party (then Minister of State for Home in the State of Gujarat)– Petitions based on two articles published in the “Caravan” magazine raising suspicion about unnatural death of the Judge as opposed to his natural death due to heart attack – Petition ers inter alia questioned the conduct of the colleagues of the Judge in at tending to him

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