Jogi sentenced to life in 2003 murder case
India, April 7 -- The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi, son of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment in connection with the 2003 murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ramavatar Jaggi. The order, passed on April 2 by a division bench of chief justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma, set aside Jogi's acquittal by a trial court in 2007. The court observed that the earlier judgment was "palpably illegal, wrong and perverse", and not based on concrete evidence on record. Terming the May 31, 2007 trial court verdict untenable, the high court held Amit Jogi guilty under sections 302 (murder) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Jaggi was murdered on June 4, 2003, when Ajit Jogi was the Chhattisgarh CM.HTC...
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