Navjot Sidhu Of Congress Gets One Year In Jail From Supreme Court

"Will submit to the majesty of law" :Navjot

On Thursday, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was 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.

According to the tweet by the Congress chief, he said, "Will submit to the majesty of law...," tweeted the former Punjab Congress chief, 58, who had participated in a protest on fuel prices this morning.

The Supreme Court gave its ruling on a petition by the family of a man who died after a brawl with Mr. Sidhu and his friend in 1988. The family had asked for graver charges against Mr. Sidhu and a review of a 2018 order of the Supreme Court acquitting him of murder charges and imposing a Rs 1,000-fine.

On December 27, 1988, Mr. Sidhu got into an argument with Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking spot. Mr. Sidhu and his friend, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of his car and hit him. He later died in hospital.

In 1999, a sessions court in Patiala acquitted Mr. Sidhu citing a lack of evidence and giving him the benefit of the doubt.

As per the information, In 2018, Mr. Sidhu approached the Supreme Court, which said the case was over 30 years old and Mr. Sidhu had not used a weapon. Mr. Sidhu was only held guilty of assaulting a senior citizen, spared a jail term, and fined Rs 1,000.