Munmun Kaur
Published On: February 03, 2022 at 11:15 IST
Supreme Court is scheduled to re-examine, its sentence to cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in an over 32-year-old road rage Case.
Earlier, in May 2018, the Supreme Court had set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court Order convicting Sidhu of Culpable Homicide and awarding him with a three-year Jail term in the road rage Case. Although, the Apex Court had held him guilty of the offence of ‘voluntarily causing hurt’ under the Indian Penal Code to the 65-year-old man.
He was spared from the Jail term but a fine of Rs 1000 was imposed. The Supreme Court had also acquitted Sidhu’s aide Rupinder Singh Sandhu of all charges due to lack of trustworthy Evidence regarding his presence on the crime scene in December 1988.
The matter had come before the Supreme Court through an Appeal filed by Sidhu against the High Court Judgment. The Prosecution had then contended that Sidhu and his aide were in a Gypsy parked in the middle of a road near the Sheranwala Gate Crossing in Patiala on the date of the incident when the Victim and two others were on their way to the bank to withdraw money.
When they reached the crossing, allegedly, Gurnam Singh, driving a Maruti car, found the Gypsy in the middle of the road and asked the occupants, Sidhu, and Sandhu, to remove it.
In September 2018, the Supreme Court agreed to examine a Review Petition which was filed by the kin of the deceased person followed by a notice being issued to Sidhu.
