CBI opposes Amit Jogi’s acquittal in murder case
May 3rd, 2011 - 9:53 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, May 3 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday filed an appeal in the Chhattisgarh High Court against the acquittal of Amit Jogi, son of Congress leader and former chief minister Ajit Jogi, in a case involving the murder of a Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader in 2003, official sources said.
The CBI filed the appeal in the high court in Bilaspur, where the junior Jogi is a practicing lawyer.
The appeal comes four years after a district and sessions court acquitted Amit Jogi, 34, in the case of murder of NCP leader Ramavatar Jaggi. A total of 28 of the 29 people accused in the case were convicted, and 19 of them were awarded life sentences.
Four close aides of the Jogi family and three policemen, including a city superintendent of police who was jailed for five years, were among those convicted.
Jaggi, treasurer of the NCP’s state unit, was shot dead in the heart of Raipur June 4, 2003, when Ajit Jogi was the chief minister. Ajit and Amit Jogi were named in the first information report (FIR) that was filed just hours after the sensational killing.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), after coming to power in December 2003, handed over the case to the CBI, which named Amit as the main accused.
Amit Jogi had spent about 10 months in Raipur central jail after being arrested in New Delhi by the investigating agency in June 2005.
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