Former Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sentenced to one year’s rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in the 34-year-old road rage case. An elderly man was killed in Sidhu’s attack. Earlier, the Supreme Court had let him off by paying a fine of Rs 1,000.
Sidhu will now either be arrested or he will surrender. Punjab Police will have to follow the law in this matter. Sidhu can be sent to Patiala Jail to serve the sentence.
Sidhu is presently present in Patiala. In the morning, he demonstrated an elephant against the central government on the issue of inflation. In September 2018, he filed a review petition against the sentence.
The road rage case against Sidhu dates back to the year 1988. Sidhu got into a fight with a 65-year-old man named Gurnam Singh over parking in Patiala. It is alleged that there was also a scuffle between them. In which Sidhu allegedly punched Gurnam Singh. Later Gurnam Singh died. Police registered a case of culpable homicide against Navjot Singh Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sidhu.
After this, the matter reached the court. During the hearing, the sessions court acquitted Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1999 citing a lack of evidence. After this, the aggrieved party reached the High Court against the decision of the Sessions Court. In the year 2006, the High Court sentenced Navjot Singh Sidhu to three years’ imprisonment and a fine of one lakh rupees in this case.
