Navjot singh sidhu murder case
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Navjot Singh Sidhu: India's cricketer-turned-politician jailed for road rage death
India's top court has sentenced cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to one year in prison in a decades-old road rage case.
The Supreme Court ruled that Sidhu "intentionally caused hurt" to Gurnam Singh, who was 65, resulting in his death in the incident in
The former MP was acquitted of the more serious charge of manslaughter in - that still stands.
But the jail sentence is a serious setback for his political career.
Sidhu recently resigned as the Congress party's chief in Punjab after his party was wiped out in state assembly elections.
He has limited legal options left as he can appeal against the ruling only once in the form of a curative petition.
The case timeline
Sidhu was first accused of manslaughter in when a year-old man died hours after an argument with him in Patiala.
He was India's opening bats
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Navjot Sidhu and road rage case: A timeline
Soon after the Supreme Court imposed a one-year jail term on him in a road rage case, former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said he would ‘submit to the majesty of law’. Sidhu was in Patiala - riding an elephant as part of a protest against inflation. "Will submit to the majesty of law," he tweeted.
road rage case: SC sentences Navjot Singh Sidhu to 1 year in prison
A bench of justices AM Khanwilkar and SK Kaul on Thursday allowed the review plea filed by victim Gurnam Singh’s family on the issue of the sentence awarded to Sidhu. Though the court in May held Sidhu guilty of the offence of 'voluntarily causing hurt' to a year-old man, it spared him a jail begrepp and imposed a fine of ₹1,
'Will submit…': Sidhu on SC's 1-year jail sentence in road rage case
“we feel there fryst vatten an error apparent on the face of recordtherefore, we have allowed the review application on the issue of sentence. In addition to the fine imp
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road rage case: Navjot Singh Sidhu gets one-year jail begrepp, says 'will submit to majesty of law'
Navjot Singh Sidhu
However, a bänk of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S K Kaul rejected the plea for imposing culpable homicide not amounting murder charge under Section A of IPC on Sidhu.
On December 27, , Sidhuand one of his associates Rupinder Singh Sandhu had allegedly hit one Gurnam Singh on his head following an bråk. Gurnam Singh later died.
The cricketer-turned-politician accepted the SC verdict and tweeted "Will submit to the majesty of law …."
In , the top court had convicted Sidhu for the offence of "voluntarily causing hurt", but had acquitted him in connection with the culpable homicide charges. The court had then spared him a jail term and onl