2 min readRaipurUpdated: Apr 6, 2026 03:16 PM IST
The Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday convicted Amit Jogi, the son of the late chief minister Ajit Jogi, in a murder case going back 23 years.
Ram Avtar Jaggi, the treasurer of the NCP – which was headed at the time by Ajit Jogi’s rival and ex-Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla – was shot on June 4, 2003, in state capital Raipur. Ajit was the CM at the time, leading a Congress government, the first after the creation of the Chhattisgarh state.
In 2007, 27 people were convicted by a special CBI court, but Amit, who was tried on conspiracy charges, was acquitted, giving him the benefit of doubt. In April 2024, the Chhattisgarh High Court upheld the conviction of 27.
However, the CBI’s petition before the High Court in 2011 against Amit’s acquittal was denied on grounds of delay in filing the appeal. The CBI then went to the Supreme Court, and in November last year, it referred the matter back to the High Court, asking it to decide the matter on the basis of merit.
Amit was convicted on Thursday by a High Court Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma. Details of the order are awaited.
Reacting to his conviction, Amit said: “Today, the Honorable High Court accepted the CBI’s appeal against me in just 40 minutes, without granting me an opportunity for a hearing. It is deeply regrettable that a person who was previously acquitted has now been declared guilty.”
Noting that the court had granted him three weeks to surrender, Amit said he was confident of getting justice from the Supreme Court.
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Jaggi’s son Satish Jaggi, who has been fighting the case for over two decades, told the media, “My faith in the court and my belief that truth would triumph has been upheld today.”
