Day after SC sentencing in highway rage case, Sidhu surrenders earlier than court docket in Patiala

By PTI

PATIALA: Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered earlier than a court docket right here on Friday, a day after being sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a 1988 road-rage loss of life case.

“He has surrendered before the court,” Sidhu’s media advisor Surinder Dalla instructed reporters outdoors the court docket. Officials stated Sidhu was taken for a medical examination and he might be lodged in a jail right here.

Accompanied by some occasion leaders together with Navtej Singh Cheema, the 58-year-old Sidhu reached the district court docket, which is closed to his home, within the afternoon.

Cheema drove Sidhu, who was in a dark-coloured ‘pathani go well with’, to the court docket in an SUV. This comes simply hours after the previous Punjab Congress president approached the Supreme Court looking for just a few week to give up to serve the imprisonment.

The high court docket bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and J B Pardiwala instructed senior advocate A M Singhvi, showing for Sidhu, that the judgment was handed by a particular bench, and that he can file the appliance and point out it earlier than the Chief Justice.

Singhvi stated he’ll try to point out the matter earlier than the Chief Justice. Back in Patiala, some supporters of Sidhu had turned up at his residence Friday morning. Patiala District Congress Committee president Narinder Pal Lali, in a message to occasion supporters Thursday evening, had stated Sidhu would attain the court docket at 10 am.

He had urged them to reach on the court docket advanced round 9.30 am. The cricketer-turned politician’s spouse Navjot Kaur Sidhu had reached their Patiala residence on Thursday evening.

The SC had Thursday sentenced Sidhu to one-year rigorous imprisonment, saying any undue sympathy in imposing an insufficient sentence would do extra hurt to the justice system and undermine the general public confidence within the efficacy of legislation.

The 65-year-old Gurnam Singh had died within the highway rage incident. When reporters sought Sidhu’s response to the decision on Thursday, he had declined to remark. However, he subsequently tweeted to say he “will submit to the majesty of the law”.

Though the apex court docket had in May 2018 held Sidhu responsible of the offence of “voluntarily causing hurt” to the person, it had spared him a jail time period and imposed a nice of Rs 1,000. The one-year rigorous imprisonment was imposed on Thursday as a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S Okay Kaul allowed a overview plea filed by Gurnam Singh’s household.

“We feel there is an error apparent on the face of record…Therefore, we have allowed the review application on the issue of the sentence. In addition to the fine imposed, we consider it appropriate to impose a sentence of imprisonment for a period of one year,” the bench stated whereas saying the decision.