Navjot Sidhu seeks more time to surrender in road rage case, court says tell CJI
India Today
Congress leader Navjot Singh Siddhu has sought more time to surrender in the 1988 road rage case.
Ex-Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has sought more time to surrender on medical grounds after he was granted a one-year jail term by the Supreme Court in the 1988 road rage case. The court, in response, asked him to mention the matter before the Chief Justice of India.
The Supreme Court had earlier allowed the review of its May 2018 order exonerating former Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu in the 34-year-old road rage case, in which Patiala resident Gurnam Singh had died.
Sidhu will be taken into custody by Punjab police as per the order. Sidhu was earlier let off with a fine of Rs 1,000. Now, the maximum possible punishment under Section 323 of the IPC has been awarded to Sidhu.
On May 15, 2018, the apex court 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.
The case relates to the death of a man, Patiala resident Gurnam Singh, in December 1988 after Sidhu and a friend assaulted him in a road rage incident.
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On December 27, 1988, Sidhu and Rupinder Singh Sandhu allegedly parked their Gypsy in the middle of the road near the Sheranwala Gate crossing in Patiala. When the 65-year-old Gurnam Singh reached the spot in a car, he asked them to move aside.
