Supreme Court sentences Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to one year in jail

In a massive setback to the cricketer-politician just months after an election defeat. Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was today sentenced to one year in jail in a 34-year-old road rage case by the Supreme Court.

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, 58, has to surrender before a court to serve a year’s “rigorous imprisonment”. “Will submit to the majesty of law…,” tweeted the former Punjab Congress chief, who had participated in a protest this morning. cricketer Mr Sidhu has the option of challenging the order.

The Supreme Court was hearing a petition by the family of a man who died after a brawl with Mr Sidhu and his associate in 1988. For over three decades, the incident and its legal aftermath has dogged Mr Sidhu, who recently quit as Punjab Congress chief after his party’s defeat in state elections.

The victim’s family had asked for graver charges against Mr Sidhu and a review of a 2018 order of the Supreme Court exonerating him. On December 27, 1988, Mr Sidhu got into an argument with Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking spot.

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Mr Sidhu and his associate, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of his car and hit him. He later died. In 1999, a sessions court in Patiala acquitted Mr Sidhu and his associate citing lack of evidence and giving the benefit of the doubt.