NEW DELHI: The CPM on Thursday demanded a high level judicial probe into the death of former CBI judge HP Loya, who was hearing the case of the alleged fake encounter killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in Gujarat, in 2005, and in which BJP president Amit Shah was an accused.
Former Rajya Sabha member and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, said, "In the matter of the death of CBI judge HP Loya, disturbing questions of murder, bribery, subversion of law and manipulation of institutions of our parliamentary democracy at the highest level have arisen, which must be seriously investigated."
Raising the demand after Judge Loya's family went public about the mysterious circumstances in which he died, the CPM said in a statement, "The family members of Justice Loya have alleged that attempts were made to bribe and intimidate him during the course of the trial. The CPI(M) demands that a high-level judicial enquiry be instituted immediately to look into this whole affair."
In a separate statement, the CPM also raised concerns over the government's increasing tendency to run what it alleged is an 'Ordinance raj'. The Marxit Communists alleged that the government was bypassing Parliament, setting an "anti-democratic" precedent.
"The CPI(M) registers its strong objection to the increasing recourse to the route of Ordinance raj that this BJP-led central government has been resorting to," the CPM said.
The government on Thursday promulgated an Ordinance to make changes to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act.
The CPM statement said, "The winter session of Parliament should normally have been sitting at this time as this has been the practice for over half a century. Bypassing the winter session and taking recourse to Ordinance raj was essentially anti-democratic at a time when Parliament was to meet soon," it said.
On the one hand, while Congress parliamentary delegation wrote to the President of India and sought his intervention to convene Parliament, the CPIM demanded that Parliament should thoroughly discuss the amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act before it is put on the statute book.
Former Rajya Sabha member and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury, said, "In the matter of the death of CBI judge HP Loya, disturbing questions of murder, bribery, subversion of law and manipulation of institutions of our parliamentary democracy at the highest level have arisen, which must be seriously investigated."
Raising the demand after Judge Loya's family went public about the mysterious circumstances in which he died, the CPM said in a statement, "The family members of Justice Loya have alleged that attempts were made to bribe and intimidate him during the course of the trial. The CPI(M) demands that a high-level judicial enquiry be instituted immediately to look into this whole affair."
In a separate statement, the CPM also raised concerns over the government's increasing tendency to run what it alleged is an 'Ordinance raj'. The Marxit Communists alleged that the government was bypassing Parliament, setting an "anti-democratic" precedent.
"The CPI(M) registers its strong objection to the increasing recourse to the route of Ordinance raj that this BJP-led central government has been resorting to," the CPM said.
The government on Thursday promulgated an Ordinance to make changes to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act.
The CPM statement said, "The winter session of Parliament should normally have been sitting at this time as this has been the practice for over half a century. Bypassing the winter session and taking recourse to Ordinance raj was essentially anti-democratic at a time when Parliament was to meet soon," it said.
On the one hand, while Congress parliamentary delegation wrote to the President of India and sought his intervention to convene Parliament, the CPIM demanded that Parliament should thoroughly discuss the amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Act before it is put on the statute book.
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