The Chhattisgarh High Court has sentenced Amit Jogi to life imprisonment in connection with the 2003 Jaggi murder case. The court has directed him to surrender within seven days.
Jogi, 74, was admitted to Shree Narayana Hospital in Raipur after he collapsed in his home garden on May 9.
A bureaucrat-turned politician, Ajit Jogi had served as the first Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh from November 2000 to November 2003 in then Congress government, after the state came into existence.
The 74-year-old leader and first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, Ajit Jogi, was admitted to Shree Narayana Hospital in Raipur on Saturday after he collapsed in his home garden at 12:30 pm.
The 74-year-old leader and first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, Ajit Jogi, was admitted to Shree Narayana Hospital in Raipur on Saturday after he collapsed in his home garden.
Jogi, 74, was admitted to Shree Narayana Hospital in Raipur after he collapsed in his home garden at 12:30 pm.
The apex court has decided to revisit its 2010 verdict in the disproportionate assets case of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.
A high-level caste scrutiny committee set up by the state government last month dismissed Ajit Jogi's claim of belonging to a Scheduled Tribe (ST) and cancelled his caste certificates.
The arrest comes after a police complaint lodged against him by Sameera Paikra, the BJP candidate from Marwahi constituency in the 2013 state Assembly polls
Ajit Jogi further said the Janta Congress Chhattisgarh and Bahujan Samaj Party alliance was capable of forming a government in Chhattisgarh.
