Navjot Singh Sidhu

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has been awarded a one-year jail term in a 1988 road rage case.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court awarded Sidhu one-year rigorous imprisonment. It also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each on both. The Supreme Court has awarded cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu one-year jail in a 1988 road rage case.

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SC says interim bail to continue until the regular bail is decided by the competent court. Supreme Court grants liberty to Azam Khan to apply for regular bail before concerned court within a period of two weeks. In 3 years, I have learnt it is only doing caste politics. If I go among the people and try to know their situation, the big leaders here try to disrupt this effort by sitting in the AC chambers: Hardik Patel, after resigning from Congress The Supreme Court Thursday imposed a one-year sentence on cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 road rage case. Supreme Court has delivered justice today.

A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S K Kaul allowed the plea filed by the kin of Gurnam Singh, who lost his life in the incident, seeking review of the ...

The duo challenged this in the Supreme Court. In 2007, the SC stayed the conviction pending a hearing on the appeal filed by Navjot Singh Sidhu and gave him bail. The incident dates back to December 27, 1988, when, according to the prosecution, Navjot Singh Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Sandhu were in a vehicle and had an altercation with Gurnam Singh, when he asked them to give way. On May 15, 2018, an SC bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Kaul, however, set this aside and instead held Navjot Singh Sidhu guilty of the offence under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and imposed only the fine.

Navjot Singh Sidhu, the former Punjab Congress president, was earlier let off with a fine of ₹1000 by the Supreme Court. | Latest News India.

The former Punjab Congress president was earlier let off with a fine of ₹1,000 by the top court. Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to one-year in prison by the Supreme Court on Thursday in a road rage case from 1988 in which one person was killed. - Navjot Singh Sidhu, the former Punjab Congress president, was earlier let off with a fine of ₹1000 by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced former Punjab Congress chief and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu to one year imprisonment in a 1988 road rage ...

The court had then convicted Sidhu of a milder offence of causing voluntarily hurt under Section 323 of the IPC. The bench said this court had been indulgent in ultimately holding Sidhu guilty of an offence of simple hurt under Section 323 of the IPC. The court noted it had missed out important material aspects that Sidhu was an international cricketer, tall and well built and aware of the force of a blow that even his hand would carry, when he hit the man, more than double his age.

The Supreme Court heard a petition by the family of a man who died after a brawl with the Congress leader and his aide.

In September 2018, the Supreme Court had agreed to hear a review petition filed by the family of deceased man. The Supreme Court had held Sidhu guilty of voluntarily causing hurt to a senior citizen and fined him Rs 1,000, but spared him the jail term. In the given circumstances, tempers may have been lost but then the consequences of the loss of temper must be borne.” However, a bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul on Thursday allowed the family’s plea for stricter punishment, Live Law reported. Finally, it has been delivered.” “We lost our father but justice was denied to us.

The Supreme Court on Thursday enhanced the sentence of cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Sidhu to one-year imprisonment In the 1988 road rage case in which ...

This may be understood where a blow may be given either by a physically fit person or to a more aged person,” the bench said. “It is not as if someone has to remind him of the extent of the injury which could be caused by a blow inflicted by him. Respondent no.1 (Sidhu) cannot say that he did not know the effect of the blow or plead ignorance on this aspect,” it said. “The result of the aforesaid is that the review applications/petitions are allowed to the aforesaid extent and in addition to the fine imposed we consider it appropriate to impose a sentence of imprisonment for a period of one-year rigorous imprisonment to be undergone by respondent no.1 (Sidhu),” a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S K Kaul said. Though the apex court had in May 2018 held Sidhu guilty of the offence of “voluntarily causing hurt” to a 65-year-old man, it spared him a jail term and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000. The Supreme Court Thursday imposed a sentence of one-year rigorous imprisonment on cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 road rage case, saying any “undue sympathy” to impose an inadequate sentence would do more harm to the justice system and undermine the public confidence in the efficacy of law.

The Supreme Court allowed the review of its May 2018 order providing relief to Sidhu in the 1988 case wherein Patiala resident Gurnam Singh succumbed to his ...

The Supreme Court had spared Sidhu jail time and imposed a Rs 1,000 fine despite finding him guilty of “voluntarily causing harm” to a 65-year-old man. The Supreme Court has awarded a one-year jail term to cricketer-turned-comedian-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 road rage case. The apex court held him guilty of harming a senior citizen instead.