Chhattisgarh High Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to state’s former Chief Minister Ajit Jogi and his son Amit in the infamous Antagarh tape case.
Justice Arvind Singh Chandel granted the bail providing a much expected relief to the father and son.
Commenting on the bail, Amit Jogi said it had proved once again that Antagarh case was nothing more than ‘Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s inflated balloon-full of gas’.
Notably, Manturam Pawar who was Congress party candidate in the 2014 Antagarh by-polls had withdrawn his candidature just before the polling thereby giving walkover to BJP candidate.
Later on, an audio tape had surfaced suggesting horse trading in the case which created political storm in Chhattisgarh as purported voices of Ajit Jogi, Amit Jogi and Dr Punit Gupta were reportedly heard in the tape.
Meanwhile, Baghel government after coming to power in 2018 formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the matter and followed by it senior Congress leader Kiranmayi Nayak had lodged an FIR against the trio as well as prime accused Manturam Pawar and BJP leader Rajesh Munat at Pandri police station of capital Raipur.