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Will Submit to the Majesty of Law: Sidhu

The Supreme Court has sentenced Congress politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to one year in prison in a 34-year-old road rage case.

The court ordered the cricketer-turned-politician to surrender and serve a year of “rigorous detention.”

“Will submit to the majesty of law…,” the 58-year-old former Punjab Congress president tweeted this morning after taking part in a demonstration over rising fuel prices.

The Supreme Court ruled on a plea filed by the family of a man who died in 1988 after a brawl with Mr Sidhu and his buddy. Mr Sidhu’s family had called for more serious charges against him, as well as a review of a Supreme Court judgment from 2018 acquitting him of murder charges and fining him Rs 1,000.

Mr Sidhu got into an altercation with Gurnam Singh, a Patiala resident, over a parking location on December 27, 1988. Mr Sidhu and a buddy, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, are accused of dragging Gurnam Singh from his car and hitting him. He died later in the hospital.

Mr Sidhu was acquitted in 1999 by a Patiala sessions court, citing a lack of evidence and giving him the benefit of the doubt.

On appeal, the Punjab and Haryana High Court found Mr Sidhu guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced him to three years in prison in 2006.

Mr Sidhu approached the Supreme Court in 2018, which stated that the matter was more than 30 years old and that Mr Sidhu had not utilised a weapon.

Mr Sidhu was only found guilty of assaulting a senior citizen and was given a fine of Rs 1,000 instead of a jail sentence. The Supreme Court also cleared Mr Sidhu’s buddy of all charges, citing a lack of proof that he was there at the scene.

The victim’s relatives asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision and consider more serious charges. Mr Sidhu fought the family’s petition and received a prison sentence as a result.

Mr Sidhu, who recently resigned as Punjab Congress chief following his party’s defeat in state elections, has been plagued by the matter after nearly three decades.

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