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Posted by: John Phoenix Isn’t the book likely to land him into trouble? For the moment, author Niranjan Takle is not ready to address the question, convinced that as a journalist he is duty bound to speak truth to power A book self-published by journalist Niranjan Takle, ‘Who killed Judge Loya’ being formally launched on Sunday, May 1, has generated considerable curiosity. In an interview Takle opened up about the controversial case and the mysterious death of the CBI special judge BH Loya who was hearing the Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case in which the Union Home Minister Amit Shah was an accused. The judge who replaced Loya after the latter’s death acquitted Shah in record time of less than a fortnight in December 2014. Admitting that the story, published finally ...

Posted by: John Phoenix Investigative reporter Niranjan Takle's page-turning read sheds light on the mystery and secrecy which formed part of the events that led up to Justice Loya's death. Was Judge Loya, in fact, killed on the intervening night of November 30 and December 1, 2014? Or was he just the victim of a heart attack (“coronary artery insufficiency”, as recorded in the post-mortem report. The book was lying unread on my bookshelves for the past several weeks. I then idly took up the book – and could not drop it till I had been through all its 315 pages. It is the astonishing story of an investigative reporter with the Mumbai bureau of The Week magazine being dragooned by a friend into meeting in the lobby of a Pune hotel with the niece of the dead ma...