The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced former MLA Amit Jogi, son of the state’s first Chief Minister, late Ajit Jogi, to life imprisonment in the sensational 2003 murder case of senior NCP leader Ram Avatar Jaggi. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Arvind Kumar Verma pronounced the sentence after hearing the CBI’s appeal, a revision petition by the victim’s son Satish Jaggi, and a plea for enhancement of sentence.

 

Ram Avatar Jaggi, a prominent businessman and NCP leader, was shot dead in 2003, in Raipur at a time when Ajit Jogi was the Chief Minister of the newly formed state. Initially, the police treated the case as a robbery and arrested five people. However, after the BJP government came to power, the investigation was transferred to the CBI in 2004.