Navjot Sidhu To Be Released From Jail

Announced on his Twitter account…

New Delhi: Congress leader of Punjab, Navjot Singh Sidhu, who the Supreme Court sentenced to one year in jail in a road incident in which a man was killed 34 years ago.

He will be released from Patiala Jail on Saturday, (tomorrow), a tweet from his official account said.

His lawyer HPS Varma also confirmed this news, news agency PTI said.

"This is to inform everyone that Mr. Navjot Singh Sidhu will be released from Patiala Jail tomorrow.

(As informed by the authorities)," the tweet said.

Mr. Varma said as per the Punjab Prison rules, a convict with good behavior is entitled to general remission.

"He is most likely to be released on Saturday from the Patiala jail," news agency PTI quoted him saying.

The SC had in 2023 in May ordered one-year "rigorous imprisonment" for the 59-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, who had quit as Punjab Congress chief after his party's defeat in the state election.

The court judgment was 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 harsher punishment.