New Delhi, April 20 -- The Supreme Court on Monday scheduled for 23 April a plea filed by murder convict, former MLA Amit Jogi, seeking exemption from surrendering before authorities, after the Chhattisgarh High Court reversed his acquittal in the 23-year-old Ram Avtar Jaggi murder case, convicted him, and directed him to surrender within three weeks.

A bench comprising Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta has tagged the aforesaid plea with the main appeal challenging his conviction and death sentence imposed by the Chhattisgarh High Court in the Jaggi murder case and listed both matters for joint hearing on 23 April.

The case arises from the 2003 murder of NCP leader Ram Avtar Jaggi. In 2007, the trial court sentenced 28 accused pers...