 Brijgopal Harkishan Loya

In June 2014, Loya was appointed to the special CBI court on the Sohrabuddin Sheikh case, after a previous judge, J. T. Utpat, was removed from the court.Unlike his predecessor, Loya allowed Amit Shah, the national leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who had been accused of ordering the murder of Sohrabuddin Sheikh, to be exempt from appearing at the court in person, until the framing of charges, except when Shah was already in the state of Maharashtra, where the case was being litigated.