Raipur, April 3 -- Nearly 23 years after the murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, the Chhattisgarh high court on Thursday convicted former chief minister Ajit Jogi's son, Amit Jogi, and directed him to surrender within three weeks. A trial court had earlier acquitted Amit Jogi in 2007. However, the high court reopened the case last month following directions from the Supreme Court, which had asked it to reconsider the CBI's plea challenging Jogi's acquittal in the case. In its November 2025 order, the Supreme Court observed that although there was a delay in filing the appeal, the charges against Amit Jogi were "very grave", involving a conspiracy to murder a political rival, and warranted consideration on merits. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma set aside the trial court's acquittal and convicted Amit Jogi, while issuing directions for him to surrender within three weeks. Reacting to the verdict, Amit Jogi said he had been denied an opportunity to be heard and termed the decision a "grave injustice". He expressed confidence that he would get relief from the Supreme Court, adding that he had full faith in the judicial system. However, Satish Jaggi, son of the late Ramavatar Jaggi, welcomed the verdict, saying "truth has prevailed". He said his family's two-decade-long wait for justice had finally ended and expressed gratitude to the judiciary and the CBI. Jaggi, an National Congress Party leader was shot dead in Raipur on June 4, 2003, when Ajit Jogi was the chief minister of Chhattisgarh....