SC stays Amit Jogi’s conviction in homicide case | India Information
NEW DELHI: Supreme Courtroom on Thursday stayed the judgment of Chhattisgarh excessive court docket convicting former chief minister Ajit Jogi’s son Amit for the 2003 homicide of NCP func Ramavatar Jaggi and sentencing him to life imprisonment.The bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi additionally raised questions over the style during which HC handled the case after it was alleged that Amit Jogi was not given a correct listening to.“What sort of judgment… conviction and sentence earlier than listening to?” the bench requested.
In 2007, trial court docket acquitted Amit Jogi
In 2007, a trial court docket had convicted different accused individuals however acquitted Amit Jogi. CBI, thereafter, moved HC in opposition to his acquittal.In 2011, HC dismissed CBI’s attraction as non-maintainable, however re-examined the case after SC disagreed with this view and directed it to determine CBI’s attraction on its deserves.Subsequently, excessive court docket put aside the trial court docket’s acquittal order, saying that Amit Jogi was the “mastermind, principal architect and driving power behind the conspiracy”.
