India, April 2 -- The Chhattisgarh high court on Thursday convicted former assembly member Amit Jogi, son of the late former chief minister Ajit Jogi, of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ramavatar Jaggi's murder around 23 years ago, directing him to surrender within three weeks. A bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma set aside a trial court's 2007 acquittal and pronounced Amit Jogi guilty.

The high court reopened the case last month. In November 2025, the Supreme Court asked the high court to reconsider the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)'s plea challenging the acquittal. It observed there was a delay in filing the appeal, but the charges against Amit Jogi were "very grave", involving a conspira...