Punjab Congress chief urges CM Mann to think about launch of Navjot Sidhu from jail
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Saturday appealed to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to think about early launch of Navjot Singh Sidhu who’s serving a year-long sentence in Patiala central jail in a 1988 highway rage dying case.
The attraction comes a day after the Punjab Cabinet permitted a proposal of granting particular remission to 5 convicts serving phrases in jails. However, the identify of Sidhu doesn’t determine within the record.
“I appeal to Chief Minister @BhagwantMann Sahab to consider the early release of senior @INCIndia leader @sherryontopp Navjot Singh Sidhu Ji also. Matters of justice should be treated above the partisan divide,” Warring tweeted.
There had been speculations that Sidhu may be granted particular remission on Republic Day.
Several Punjab Congress leaders, together with former Punjab Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, had final month lambasted the AAP authorities for not releasing Sidhu.
On May 20 final 12 months, Sidhu, the previous Punjab Congress chief, was jailed following his give up earlier than a courtroom in Patiala after he was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
The prime courtroom had, in its order, stated any 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.
Though the courtroom had in May 2018 held Sidhu responsible of “voluntarily causing hurt” to the person, it had spared him a jail time period and imposed on him a nice of Rs 1,000.
The Punjab Cabinet on Friday gave approval for sending the case of particular remission to convicts confined in jails of Punjab within the second section to commemorate the seventy fifth Independence Day of the nation being celebrated as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
Similarly, a inexperienced sign was additionally given for sending the instances looking for the untimely launch of life convicts confined within the jails of the state.
After the Cabinet’s nod below Article 163 of the Constitution of India, these particular remission/untimely launch instances shall be submitted to Punjab Governor below Article 161 of the structure, an official assertion stated.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Saturday appealed to Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann to think about early launch of Navjot Singh Sidhu who’s serving a year-long sentence in Patiala central jail in a 1988 highway rage dying case.
The attraction comes a day after the Punjab Cabinet permitted a proposal of granting particular remission to 5 convicts serving phrases in jails. However, the identify of Sidhu doesn’t determine within the record.
“I appeal to Chief Minister @BhagwantMann Sahab to consider the early release of senior @INCIndia leader @sherryontopp Navjot Singh Sidhu Ji also. Matters of justice should be treated above the partisan divide,” Warring tweeted.
There had been speculations that Sidhu may be granted particular remission on Republic Day.
Several Punjab Congress leaders, together with former Punjab Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, had final month lambasted the AAP authorities for not releasing Sidhu.
On May 20 final 12 months, Sidhu, the previous Punjab Congress chief, was jailed following his give up earlier than a courtroom in Patiala after he was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
The prime courtroom had, in its order, stated any 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.
Though the courtroom had in May 2018 held Sidhu responsible of “voluntarily causing hurt” to the person, it had spared him a jail time period and imposed on him a nice of Rs 1,000.
The Punjab Cabinet on Friday gave approval for sending the case of particular remission to convicts confined in jails of Punjab within the second section to commemorate the seventy fifth Independence Day of the nation being celebrated as ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
Similarly, a inexperienced sign was additionally given for sending the instances looking for the untimely launch of life convicts confined within the jails of the state.
After the Cabinet’s nod below Article 163 of the Constitution of India, these particular remission/untimely launch instances shall be submitted to Punjab Governor below Article 161 of the structure, an official assertion stated.
