Supreme Court Acquits Navjot Singh Sidhu In 1988 Road Rage Case
The Supreme Court today convicted Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man but spared him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case
The Supreme Court today convicted Punjab Tourism Minister
Navjot Singh Sidhu
for voluntarily causing hurt to a 65-year-old man but spared
him a jail term in the 1988 road rage case.
Sidhu has been booked under Section 304 (II), amounting
to culpable homicide but not amounting to murder, and acquitted under Section 323, which entails punishment for
voluntarily causing harm, and will be required to pay a fine of Rs. 1,000.
In 1999, a
trial court had acquitted him and another of murder due to lack of evidences, but the HC reversed the verdict and
awarded them three-year jail terms in
2006.
Ironically, the Punjab government has supported the HC's
judgement.
In April 2018,
the Punjab government had sought the conviction of Sidhu and also pleaded
before it to uphold the order of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the road
rage case.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Soon after, the Supreme Court on April 18 reserved its
judgement on the appeal filed by the former Indian cricketer.
On December 27, 1988, Sidhu and Rupinder Singh Sandhu
allegedly parked their Gypsy in the middle of the road near the Sheranwala Gate-Crossing, Patiala.
When 65-year-old man Gurnam Singh reached the
spot in a car, he asked them to move aside. Sidhu
then beat up Singh. He also allegedly removed Singh's car keys before fleeing
so he couldn't get medical help. Singh
later died.
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