Navjot Singh Sidhu gets one-year jail in 1988 road rage case
India Today
Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has been awarded a one-year jail term in a 1988 road rage case.
The Supreme Court has awarded cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh one-year jail in a 1988 road rage case. The Supreme Court had earlier allowed the review of its May 2018 order exonerating Navjot Singh Siddhu 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.
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.
Despite finding Navjot Sidhu guilty of "voluntarily causing harm" to a 65-year-old man, the Supreme Court spared him jail time and imposed a Rs 1,000 fine.
Later in September 2018, the apex court had agreed to examine a review petition filed by the family members of the deceased and issued notice to Sidhu on it.
