Navjot Sidhu was convicted of voluntarily inflicting damage. (FILE)
New Delhi:
Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sentenced to a 12 months in jail in a 1988 highway rage case.
Navjot Sidhu has to give up earlier than a courtroom.
The case includes expenses that on December 27, 1988, Mr Sidhu beat Gurnam Singh on his head, resulting in his loss of life.
The courtroom had earlier reserved its order on an software looking for to enlarge the scope of discover within the highway rage case. The appliance was additionally filed in an ongoing evaluation petition.
Mr Sidhu has opposed the plea looking for to enlarge the scope of the highway rage case towards him citing earlier order of the Supreme Courtroom which held that there was no proof that the loss of life of the sufferer was brought on by a single blow.
The previous Punjab Congress chief was acquitted in reference to culpable murder expenses however was convicted of voluntarily inflicting damage.
A Classes Courtroom Choose of Patiala had on September 22, 1999, acquitted Mr Sidhu and his affiliate citing lack of proof and giving the advantage of the doubt.
It was then challenged by the sufferer’s households earlier than the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom, which in 2006, convicted and sentenced Mr Sidhu to 3 years imprisonment. Mr Sidhu then filed an attraction earlier than the Supreme Courtroom difficult this order.
