NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday discharged the PIL seeking an independent investigation into the death of judge B H Loya on December 2014.

Worth mention here he died when he was trying the Sohrabuddin Sheikkh fake encounter case in which BJP leader Amit Shah was a prime accused.

According to the The top court the PIL was 'bereft of any truth' and an attempt to smear the judiciary. SC asserted that Judge Loya died a natural death and there was not a tear up of doubt about it.

SC further said the petitioners' advocates Dushyant Dave, Indira Jaising and Prashant Bhushan launched an anterior attack on the judiciary by egging the Supreme Court to disbelieve the three judicial officers who accompanied Loya to Nagpur and stayed with him at a guest house and who said the judge had died of a heart attack.

The Top court in its judgment went on to utter it would have been ideal to set off contempt proceedings against the petitioner in such a case where a political contention is brought to court to slander the judiciary.

In a derisive criticism, a bench of CJI Dipak Misra, Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said that during the arguments counsel overlooked to maintain institutional civility towards the top court's judges and made feral allegations.

The PILs, which were meant to provide aid to the demoralized and voiceless, have now become an industry to straighten out business and political rivalry, court added.

On December 1, 2014 Loya had allegedly passed away due to cardiac arrest in Nagpur when he had gone to attend the marriage ceremony of a colleague's daughter.

On March 16 The SC bench had reserved the verdict on the pleas.