<p>Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday said that he had yet to receive any new evidence about the death of special CBI judge B H Loya who had handled the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case.</p>.<p>Many people had contacted him saying that they had evidence, but none so far had come up with actual proof, he said, speaking at the Press Club here.</p>.<p>To a query whether the probe into Loya's death will be reopened, the minister said, "I received several phone calls from people who claimed they had (new) evidence.</p>.<p>"I told them they can come and meet me. But no one has yet come to meet me with proof (showing that a fresh investigation was needed)," Deshmukh, who belongs to the NCP, said.</p>.<p>He had said earlier that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra was open to investigate Loya's death afresh if any new material surfaced.</p>.<p>Loya, who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Shaikh case, died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014, when he was visiting the city to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter.</p>.<p>There were demands from some quarters that the death should be probed as the judge was allegedly under a lot of pressure.</p>.<p>But the Supreme Court rejected multiple pleas for independent probe, holding that Loya died of natural causes.</p>
<p>Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Saturday said that he had yet to receive any new evidence about the death of special CBI judge B H Loya who had handled the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case.</p>.<p>Many people had contacted him saying that they had evidence, but none so far had come up with actual proof, he said, speaking at the Press Club here.</p>.<p>To a query whether the probe into Loya's death will be reopened, the minister said, "I received several phone calls from people who claimed they had (new) evidence.</p>.<p>"I told them they can come and meet me. But no one has yet come to meet me with proof (showing that a fresh investigation was needed)," Deshmukh, who belongs to the NCP, said.</p>.<p>He had said earlier that the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra was open to investigate Loya's death afresh if any new material surfaced.</p>.<p>Loya, who was hearing the high-profile Sohrabuddin Shaikh case, died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014, when he was visiting the city to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter.</p>.<p>There were demands from some quarters that the death should be probed as the judge was allegedly under a lot of pressure.</p>.<p>But the Supreme Court rejected multiple pleas for independent probe, holding that Loya died of natural causes.</p>