Overview
- A division bench’s April 2 order, posted Monday, set aside Amit Jogi’s 2007 acquittal and gave him life imprisonment for the 2003 killing of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi in Raipur.
- The court called the earlier acquittal “illegal” and “perverse,” described Jogi as the mastermind, and convicted him under IPC Sections 302 and 120-B for murder and criminal conspiracy.
- The judges ordered Jogi to surrender within three weeks and levied a ₹1,000 fine that adds six months in prison if unpaid.
- Jogi has filed a Special Leave Petition in the Supreme Court, which listed the case for April 20 after earlier directing the High Court to hear the CBI’s appeal on merits despite delay.
- The case moved from state police to the CBI in 2004, a trial court convicted 28 accused in 2007, and the victim’s son welcomed the High Court’s ruling while Jogi alleges he was denied a fair hearing.