Bilaspur, April 2 Nearly 23 years after the murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi, the Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday convicted former CM Ajit Jogi's son, Amit Jogi, in the case, and ordered him to surrender within three weeks, the CBI's counsel said.
A trial court had acquitted Amit Jogi, president of the Janata Congress Chhattisgarh (J), founded by his late father, in 2007.
The HC reopened proceedings in the 2003 murder case last month following directions from the Supreme Court on an appeal by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Last November, the SC said, although the CBI had filed the application after a significant delay, it was equally true that "the charges against respondent Amit Jogi were very grave, involving a conspiracy to murder a member of a rival political party".
On Thursday, a division bench of Chhattisgarh High Court's Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma overturned the acquittal of Amit Jogi, convicted him, and issued the surrender directive, CBI counsel Vaibhav A Goverdhan told