No final judgment on Jaggi murder case; SC directs trial court

New Delhi, Nov 29 (UNI) The Supreme Court today directed the trial court not to pronounce till further orders the final judgment in the Avtar Singh Jaggi murder case, in which Amit Jogi son of former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi is the main accused.

A bench comprising Justices K G Balakrishnan, Lokeshwar Singh Panta and D K Jain fixed December 11, as the next date of hearing of the petition filed by Satish Jaggi, son of the deceased NCP leader.

Earlier, the petitioner had sought transfer of the case from the Sessions Court as the judge is the elder brother of sitting Congress MLA Gulab Singh and hence the petitioner had bonafide and genuine apprehensions that they would not get justice if the case was not transferred to some other court.

Senior Counsel Arun Jaitley appeared for the petitioner during the mentioning.

Avtar Singh Jaggi was shot at on June 4, 2003 and succumbed to injuries the next day. Ajit Jogi was the state Chief Minister at that time.

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