ROAD RAGE CASE: SC VERDICT ON SIDHU’S APPEAL TODAY
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce its judgment on the appeal filed by cricketerturned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was awarded threeyear jail term by the Punjab and Haryana high court in a 1988 road rage case, on Tuesday. A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul had on April 18 reserved its judgment in the case in which Sidhu, who had quit BJP and joined Congress days before the assembly polls last year, had claimed that evidence about the cause of Gurnam Singh’s death was contradictory.
NEWDELHI: The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce its judgment on an appeal filed by cricketerturned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was awarded a threeyear jail term by the Punjab and Haryana high court in a 1988 road rage case, on Tuesday.
A bench of justice J Chelameswar and justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul had on April 18 reserved its judgment in the case in which Sidhu, who had quit the BJP and joined the Congress days before the Punjab assembly election last year, had claimed that evidence about the cause of death of victim Gurnam Singh was contradictory and the medical opinion in this regard was “vague”.
Besides Sidhu, who is currently Punjab tourism minister, an appeal was filed by Rupinder Singh Sandhu, who was also convicted and sentenced to threeyear jail by the HC in the case. According to the prosecution, Sidhu and Sandhu were allegedly in a Gypsy parked on the middle of a road in Patiala on December 27, 1988, when the victim and two others were on their way to the bank to withdraw money.
It was alleged that when they reached the crossing, Gurnam Singh, driving a Maruti car, found the Gypsy in the middle of the road and asked the occupants to remove it. PTI