New Delhi. Former cricketer and former Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu has suffered a major setback. Navjot Sidhu got bad news from the Supreme Court today in the 1988 road rage case. In fact, the Supreme Court has reversed its decision in the 34-year-old case. The court sentenced him to one year in the road rage case. After which now Congress leader Sidhu will either be arrested or he will surrender. Let us tell you that earlier he was released after paying a fine of only one thousand rupees.
SC allows review application, imposes one-year rigorous imprisonment on Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu in a three-decade-old road rage case pic.twitter.com/cyYfsXh92o
— ANI (@ANI) May 19, 2022
Know what is the matter-
Let us tell you that this matter is about 34 years old. When Sidhu and his friend had an argument with an elderly person regarding parking in Patiala. Not only this, the matter increased so much that even a scuffle had come between them. In this fight, a 65-year-old man named Gurnam Singh suffered a head injury. The elderly man had died during treatment in the hospital. After which the Punjab Police had registered a case of culpable homicide against Congress leader Sidhu and his friend. The police had also alleged that Navjot Sidhu had fled the spot.
Thereafter the matter reached the Sessions Court. However, during the hearing, the court acquitted Sidhu in the case in 1999 citing lack of evidence. But later the aggrieved party had reached the High Court against the decision of the Sessions Court. In 2006, the High Court sentenced Navjot Sidhu to 3 years imprisonment in this case and also imposed a fine of one lakh rupees.
However, after the High Court’s decision, Sidhu moved the Supreme Court. After which the Supreme Court gave great relief to Navjot Singh on 16 May 2018 and acquitted him under section 304IPC on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. However, under section 323 of the IPC, ie, in the case of causing hurt, Sidhu was found guilty.