New Delhi: Former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu reached Patiala sessions court to surrender on Friday after the Supreme Court sentenced him to one year in jail in the 1988 road rage case.
The apex court has asked him to place the matter before the Chief Justice of India.
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#WATCH | 1988 road rage case: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu reaches Patiala Court in Punjab.
Supreme Court had yesterday imposed one-year rigorous imprisonment on him in the three-decade-old road rage case. pic.twitter.com/iHu3bmbOls
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On Thursday, SC has sentenced Sidhu to one-year imprisonment in a 34-year-old road rage case.
Previously, the court had released Sidhu only with a penalty of one thousand rupees, but after the review petition of the victim’s family, the court changed its decision.
Sidhu’s last tweet
After the SC’s order, Sidhu had tweeted that he “Will submit to the majesty of law ….”. Sidhu had recently resigned from the post of Punjab Congress chief following the defeat of the Congress in the state elections.
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On 27 December 1988, Sidhu got into an argument with Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking issue. Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of their car and hit him.
He later died in the hospital. An eyewitness had accused Sidhu of killing Gurnam Singh by hitting him on the head.
Sidhu was acquitted in this case in 1999 by a local court due to lack of evidence. But in 2006, the High Court convicted him of culpable homicide and sentenced him to three years in prison.
Sidhu had filed an appeal in the Supreme Court, which commuted his sentence and dismissed the case after ordering the former cricketer to pay the fine, saying the incident was 30 years old and Sidhu did not use a weapon.
