Overview
- The Supreme Court bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi on Thursday stayed the Chhattisgarh High Court’s conviction and life sentence of Amit Jogi and issued notices to the CBI and other parties.
- The stay also pauses a separate High Court order that had granted the CBI leave to appeal and required Jogi to furnish bail bonds and sureties by March 31.
- The High Court had on April 2 reversed Jogi’s 2007 acquittal, labeled him the mastermind of a conspiracy to kill NCP leader Ram Avtar Jaggi, and directed him to surrender within three weeks.
- Justice Sandeep Mehta asked how a sentence could be passed without hearing the accused, signaling the top court’s focus on procedural fairness.
- The case dates to Jaggi’s June 4, 2003 shooting in Raipur, after which a 2007 trial convicted 28 others, and in November 2025 the Supreme Court allowed the CBI’s delayed appeal to proceed on the merits.