Fresh trouble appears to be brewing for Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, as the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a petition seeking a review of its May 2018 order exonerating the cricketer-turned-politician in a 1988 road rage case in which a person was killed.
According to reports, Justice Khanwilkar-led bench of Supreme Court will tomorrow hear the plea filed by the victim’s family seeking a review of its May 15, 2018 verdict that let off Sidhu with a Rs 1,000 fine in a 1988 road rage case in which Patiala resident Gurnam Singh died.
The development comes less than 20 days before the Punjab Assembly elections, in which Navjot Singh Sidhu is leading the charge for the Congress party.
In May 2018, the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted Sidhu of voluntarily causing harm and sentenced him to three years in jail. However, the Supreme Court let him off with a fine, noting the incident was more than 30 years old and that there was no past enmity between the accused and victim, and no weapon was used by the accused.
On December 27, 1988, Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu got into an argument with Gurnam over a parking space in Patiala. The two allegedly dragged Gurnam out of his car and hit him. Gurnam later died. The trial court released Sidhu, but the High Court found him guilty in 2006.
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