Former Indian cricketer, Navjot Singh Sidhu, who has now become a full-time politician was on Thursday sentenced by the Supreme Court to one year in jail in a 34-year-old road rage case. The cricketer-turned-politician must surrender and serve a year’s “rigorous imprisonment”, the court said.
After the announcement made by the Apex Court, Navjot Singh Sidhu tweeted, “Will submit to the majesty of law,” after participating in a protest on fuel prices on Thursday morning.
Will submit to the majesty of law ….
— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) May 19, 2022
The verdict was announced on Thursday by the two-judge bench comprising Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, reviewing their own order from 2018 when the court had decided to reduce Sidhu’s sentence from three years’ imprisonment to INR 1000 fine.
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According to the legal media website livelaw.in, the court said, “We have allowed review application on the issue of sentence. In addition to fine imposed, we impose a sentence of imprisonment of one year to be undergone by respondent 1(Sidhu).”
The incident happened on December 27, 1988, in the north Indian city of Patiala in Punjab when Sidhu pulled Gurnam, who was 65 years old, out of his vehicle and assaulted him physically with his fists.
According to live law.in, Justice Kaul was also part of the two-judge bench in 2018, along with Justice J Chelameshwar, which had acquitted Sidhu of culpable homicide. Chelameshwar had said, “…the conclusion of the High Court that Gurnam Singh’s death is caused by subdural hemorrhage but not cardiac arrest, in our opinion, is not based on any evidence on record and is a pure conjecture.”
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He further added, “We, therefore, find it difficult to sustain the conviction of the first accused and set aside the same. Because to find a man guilty of culpable homicide, the basic fact required to be es established is that the accused caused the death. But, as noticed above, the medical evidence is absolutely uncertain regarding the cause of death of Gurnam Singh.”
