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The Chhattisgarh High Court connected Thursday (April 2, 2026) convicted Amit Jogi – the lad of erstwhile Chief Minister, the precocious Ajit Jogi – successful a 2003 execution case, giving him 3 weeks to surrender.
The lawsuit pertains to the sidesplitting of businessman-politician Ramavatar Jaggi successful Raipur astatine a clip erstwhile Ajit Jogi was the sitting Chief Minister of the State. In 2007, 28 radical were convicted successful the lawsuit by a peculiar CBI court, but Mr. Amit Jogi was acquitted arsenic helium was fixed the payment of the doubt.
In 2011, the CBI approached the High Court challenging the acquittal, but the entreaty was rejected by the HC connected grounds of delay. The investigating bureau past moved the Supreme Court, which referred the lawsuit backmost to the High Court past November and including the statement connected Thursday, determination were six to 7 hearings connected the matter, maintained sources.
Following the verdict, Mr. Amit Jogi said it was sedate injustice done to him.
“Today, the Honorable High Court allowed the CBI's entreaty against maine successful a specified 40 minutes—without granting maine an accidental to beryllium heard. I regret that an idiosyncratic whom the tribunal had antecedently acquitted has present been convicted without being granted a azygous accidental for a hearing. This is unprecedented. The tribunal has granted maine a play of 3 weeks to surrender. I consciousness that a sedate injustice has been done to me. I person afloat religion and assurance that I volition surely person justness from the Supreme Court,” helium wrote connected X.
Satish Jaggi, Ramavatar Jaggi’s lad hailed the verdict arsenic a triumph for information and added that his family's twenty-year conflict had yet borne fruit.
“I explicit my deepest gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of radical who stood by me—and by the origin of justice—throughout this full journey.Ultimately, the premier accused, Amit Jogi, volition beryllium sent to jail. While the Jaggi household cannot precisely rejoice implicit this—for I person mislaid a father—justice has so prevailed. For this outcome, I explicit my sincere gratitude to the Honorable Court, the CBI, and everyone involved,” helium told journalists.
Ramavatar Jaggi’s execution connected June 4, 2003 was a sensational occurrence up of the Assembly polls scheduled aboriginal that year. Jaggi was the treasurer of the Nationalist Congress Party that was led by the precocious Vidya Charan Shukla successful the State and his household had alleged that the emergence of NCP successful the governmental fray posed a large situation to the incumbent Congress.
