Former Punjab Congress unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu was on Thursday sentenced by the Supreme Court to one-year imprisonment for his involvement in a road rage incident in 1988 that left one person dead. He has been ordered to surrender before a court.
The Supreme Court had on March 25 reserved its verdict on a plea seeking review of its order that had let off Sidhu with a fine of Rs 1,000 in the case. The Supreme Court had in 2018 reduced Sidhu's sentence in the case from three years imprisonment to a fine. The Supreme Court had then held that Sidhu had committed a culpable offence not amounting to murder.
He had been convicted in the case by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2006 and sentenced to three years imprisonment.
On Thursday, the bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said it had allowed a review application on the sentence and imposed a sentence of one year in prison, in addition to the fine.
The case was filed by the kin of Gurnam Singh, the victim of the road rage incident. Gurnam Singh was a resident of Patiala.
