India, June 11 -- The Bombay Bar Association (BBA) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Bombay High Court, seeking constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe instances of harassment, threats, intimidation and violence against retired Bombay high court judge Gautam S Patel and his family over his landmark 2024 judgement settling a dispute over the spiritual head of the Dawoodi Bohra community.

The SIT must include sleuths from Maharashtra Police, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the National Investigation Agency (NIA), and the court must issue directions for providing security to retired judges if the need arises, as there is no substantive law on the subject, the BBA said in its PIL.

The ...