Navjot Singh Sidhu to be launched from jail in the present day, after 10 months

Former Indian cricketer and senior Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu is leaving Patiala jail in the present day after serving a 10-month sentence for a road-rage incident that resulted in a person’s dying 35 years in the past. The 59-year-old former cricketer-turned-politician may even handle the media exterior of jail.

Will handle the media exterior patiala jail round midday..

— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) April 1, 2023

Sidhu’s launch date was introduced on his Twitter account yesterday, March 31. He is reportedly getting launched two months earlier than the top of his sentence for his ‘good behaviour.’ His household additionally acquired an intimation from authorities concerning his launch from the Patiala jail.

This is to tell everybody that Sardar Navjot Singh Sidhu will likely be launched from Patiala Jail tomorrow.

(As knowledgeable by the involved authorities).

— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) March 31, 2023

Sidhu was imprisoned on May 20 final yr after surrendering to a Patiala courtroom and receiving a one-year extreme punishment sentence from the Supreme Court within the case. The household of the sufferer had sought a harsher sentence and a reconsideration of the Supreme Court’s 2018 choice clearing him of homicide.

Sidhu’s lawyer HPS Verma knowledgeable that the Punjab Congress chief is getting an early launch underneath the state’s common remission coverage. “Navjot Singh Sidhu’s scheduled release was in May, but for all prisoners with good conduct, all Sunday holidays get deducted from the sentence period. Therefore, he is getting a 48-day remission,” he said. 

On December 27, 1988, Patiala resident Gurnam Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu acquired right into a battle over a parking area. The former MP and his buddy, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, dragged the latter out of his automotive and hit him. He later died in a hospital. The Congress chief was accused by an eyewitness of killing the latter with a strike to the top.

The duo had parked their Gypsy in the midst of the highway close to the Sheranwala Gate crossing in Patiala. When the aged man reached the spot in a automotive, he requested them to make room for his automobile which result in a violent altercation between them.