Navjot Sidhu gets 2 weeks from Supreme Court to reply in 1998 road rage case
India Today
The Supreme Court has asked Navjot Singh Sidhu to respond to the application in the 1988 road rage case within two weeks.
The Supreme Court is set to review its verdict in the 1988 road rage case involving Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu and examine if the 58-year-old leader should face tougher charges.
The Punjab Congress chief has been given two weeks' time to respond to the Supreme Court notice.
Advocate Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the victim's family, sought punishment under graver offences.
Senior advocate P Chidambaram, appearing for Sidhu, said that the initial application from the petitioner was only about quantum of sentence and not the nature of offence.
He further opposed the nature of offence also being questioned after so many years had passed since the incident.
The Supreme Court was hearing a petition seeking a review of its May 2018 order exonerating Navjot Singh Siddhu in a 1988 road rage case in which Patiala resident Gurnam Singh had died.
The apex court had on May 15, 2018, set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order convicting Sidhu of culpable homicide and awarding him a three-year jail term in the case, but had held him guilty of causing hurt to a senior citizen.
