{"id":13563,"date":"2026-04-23T22:55:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:55:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:55:40","slug":"130480750-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13563","title":{"rendered":"SC stays Amit Jogi&#8217;s conviction in murder case | India News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130480758,imgsize-23320,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/amit-jogi.jpg\" alt=\"SC stays Amit Jogi's conviction in murder case\" title=\".\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/supreme-court\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Thursday stayed the judgment of Chhattisgarh high court convicting former chief minister Ajit Jogi&#8217;s son Amit for the 2003 murder of NCP func Ramavatar Jaggi and sentencing him to life imprisonment.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>The bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi also raised questions over the manner in which HC dealt with the case after it was alleged that Amit Jogi was not given a proper hearing.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>&#8220;What kind of judgment&#8230; conviction and sentence before hearing?&#8221; the bench asked.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>In 2007, trial court acquitted Amit Jogi<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>In 2007, a trial court had convicted other accused persons but acquitted Amit Jogi. CBI, thereafter, moved HC against his acquittal.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>In 2011, HC dismissed CBI&#8217;s appeal as non-maintainable, but re-examined the case after SC disagreed with this view and directed it to decide CBI&#8217;s appeal on its merits.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Subsequently, high court set aside the trial court&#8217;s acquittal order, saying that Amit Jogi was the &#8220;mastermind, principal architect and driving force behind the conspiracy&#8221;.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/sc-stays-amit-jogis-conviction-in-murder-case\/articleshow\/130480750.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the judgment of Chhattisgarh high court convicting former&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32352,724,13405,723,719,720,721,32354,32353,1282,722],"class_list":["post-13563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amit-jogi","tag-breaking-news","tag-chhattisgarh-high-court","tag-google-news","tag-india","tag-india-news","tag-india-news-today","tag-judgment-stay","tag-murder-case","tag-supreme-court","tag-today-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}