Will submit to the majesty of law ….Sidhu after conviction
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Former Punjab Pradesh congress committee President and senior Punjab congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sentenced to a year in jail in a 34-year-old road rage case.
The victim’s family had asked for graver charges against Sidhu and a review of a 2018 order of the Supreme Court exonerating Sidhu. However, a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S K Kaul rejected the plea for imposing culpable homicide not amounting murder charge under Section 304A of IPC on Sidhu.
As per available information, he has given time to surrender in the court. But he tweeted Will submit to the majesty of law ….
As per procedure, he will have to surrender in the local court. The court will issue a warrant and than he will be lodged in the jail. As he is going to surrender at Patiala, most likely he will be lodged at Patiala Central Jail.
Navjot Sidhu, 58, has to surrender before a court to serve a one-year “rigorous imprisonment”. But, he has the option of challenge the order.
On December 27, 1988, Sidhu got into an argument with Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking spot. Sidhu and his associate, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of his car and hit him. He later died.
May 19,2022
