The Supreme Court docket had earlier imposed a effective of Rs 1,000 on Navjot Sidhu. (File)
New Delhi:
Weeks forward of the Punjab Meeting elections, the Supreme Court docket is scheduled to re-examine on Thursday the sentence awarded by it to cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in an over 32-year-old street rage case.
Mr Sidhu is presently the Punjab Congress President and voting within the state meeting election is scheduled for February 20.
The Supreme Court docket had on Could 15, 2018, put aside the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket order convicting him of culpable murder and awarding him a three-year jail time period within the case, however had held him responsible of inflicting harm to a senior citizen.
Although the highest court docket had held Mr Sidhu responsible of the offence of “voluntarily inflicting harm” to a 65-year-old man, it spared him of a jail time period and imposed a effective of Rs 1,000.
Part 323 (punishment for voluntarily inflicting harm) of the Indian Penal Code entails a most jail time period of as much as one 12 months or with a effective which can prolong to Rs 1,000 or each.
It had additionally acquitted Mr Sidhu’s aide Rupinder Singh Sandhu of all fees saying there was no reliable proof concerning his presence together with Mr Sidhu on the time of the offence in December 1988.
Later in September 2018, the Supreme Court docket had agreed to look at a evaluate petition filed by the members of the family of the lifeless particular person and issued discover to Mr Sidhu on it.
“Problem discover restricted to quantum of sentence qua respondent no. 1 – Navjot Singh Sidhu,” the court docket had stated in its September 11, 2018 order.
A particular bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul would take into account the evaluate petition on Thursday.
The Supreme Court docket’s Could 2018 verdict had come on the enchantment filed by Mr Sidhu and Mr Sandhu difficult the excessive court docket’s 2006 judgment convicting them.
In response to the prosecution, Mr Sidhu and Mr Sandhu had been in a Gypsy parked in the course of a street close to the Sheranwala Gate Crossing in Patiala on December 27, 1988, when the sufferer and two others had been on their solution to the financial institution to withdraw cash.
Once they reached the crossing, it was alleged, Gurnam Singh, driving a Maruti automotive, discovered the Gypsy in the course of the street and requested the occupants, Mr Sidhu and Mr Sandhu, to take away it. This led to heated exchanges.
Mr Sidhu was acquitted of the homicide fees by the trial court docket in September 1999.
Nonetheless, the excessive court docket had reversed the decision and held Mr Sidhu and Mr Sandhu responsible beneath part 304 (II) (culpable murder not amounting to homicide) of the IPC in December 2006.
It had sentenced them to 3 years in jail and imposed a effective of Rs one lakh every on them.
The Supreme Court docket whereas permitting the appeals of Mr Sidhu and Mr Sandhu had stated the medical proof was “completely unsure” concerning the reason for dying of sufferer Gurnam Singh.
In 2007, the Supreme Court docket had stayed the conviction of Mr Sidhu and Mr Sandhu within the case.
