The Supreme Court today decided to hear the pleas seeking an independent probe into the alleged mysterious death of special CBI judge B H Loya on Monday . The top court fixed January 22 for the hearing and directed listing of petitions before an appropriate bench.<br/><br/>A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud said an appropriate bench of the apex court would hear the petitions filed by Congress leader Tehseen Poonawalla and Maharashtra journalist B S Lone.<br/><br/>A bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra had on January 16, ordered the matters to be listed before an appropriate bench and had not fixed any specific date for hearing.<br/><br/>It had left it to the Maharashtra Government to decide which documents, relating to Loya's death, could be handed over to the petitioners. The State Government, which had filed documents in a sealed cover relating to Loya's death, had during the hearing opposed the petitioners' demand that the entire material should be handed over to them for perusal.<br/><br/>Loya, who was hearing the sensitive Sohrabuddin Sheikh encounter case, had allegedly died of cardiac arrest in Nagpur on December 1, 2014, when he had gone to attend the wedding of a colleague's daughter.<br/><br/>A PIL seeking probe into the judge's death was also filed before the Bombay High Court on January 8 by the Bombay Lawyers' Association.