BIG NEWS: Navjot Singh Sidhu Gets One Year Jail Time in 1988 Road Rage Case
In a shocking development, Navjot Singh Sidhu has been bestowed with 1 year of jail time in a 1988 road rage case by the Supreme Court. News Agency ANI reported that the apex court allowed the review plea filed by the family of the deceased who was killed during an alleged brawl with the cricketer-turned-politician.
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
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In May 2018, SC had held Sidhu guilty of the offence of ‘voluntarily causing hurt’ to a 65-year-old man and he was off the hook by giving a fine of Rs 1,000. Later in September 2018, the apex court agreed to examine a petition filed by the family members of the deceased and had issued notice.
The court had also cleared Sidhu’s aide Rupinder Singh Sandhu’s name of all charges saying there was no trustworthy evidence regarding his presence along with Sidhu at the time of the offence in December 1988.
According to the prosecution, Sidhu and Sandhu were in a Gypsy parked in the middle of a road near the Sheranwala Gate Crossing in Patiala on December 27, 1988, when the victim and two others were on their way to the bank to withdraw money.
When they reached the crossing, Gurnam Singh, driving a Maruti car, found the Gypsy in the middle of the road and asked the passengers Sidhu and Sandhu to remove it. This led to heated exchanges.
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