Congress
leader
Navjot
Singh
Sidhu
has
been
sentenced
to
one-year
jail
term
in
a
34-year-old
(1988)
road
rage
case,
where
he
was
earlier
let
off
with
a
mere
Rs
1,000
fine.
The
cricketer-politician,
who
was
replaced
by
Archana
Puran
Singh
in
The
Kapil
Sharma
Show,
has
to
surrender
before
a
court
to
serve
a
one-year
rigorous
imprisonment
in
a
three-decade
old
road
rage
case,
in
which
a
person
had
died.
However,
Sidhu
has
the
option
of
challenging
the
order.
Soon
after
the
verdict
by
Supreme
Court,
Sidhu
took
to
Twitter
and
wrote,
"Will
submit
to
the
majesty
of
law
...."
According
to
News18
report,
the
victim's
family
had
filed
a
review
petition
seeking
punishment
for
an
offence
of
more
serious
category
than
causing
hurt,
leading
to
enhancement
of
punishment.
However,
Sidhu
had
urged
Supreme
Court
not
to
punish
him
with
a
jail
term.
As
per
the
report,
senior
advocate
AM
Singhvi,
appearing
for
Sidhu,
told
the
bench
during
the
arguments,
"It
is
an
extraordinary
case
in
the
negative
sense
which
does
not
merit
your
lordship's
entertainment
because
it
has
potential
to
be
subversive
of
the
basic
foundations
of
criminal
justice
and
therefore,
an
abuse
of
process."
On
December
27,
1988,
during
an
altercation,
Sidhu
and
one
of
his
associates
Rupinder
Singh
Sandhu
had
allegedly
hit
one
Gurnam
Singh,
who
later
died.
In
2018,
although
the
apex
court
had
held
Sidhu
guilty
of
the
offence
of
voluntarily
causing
hurt
to
a
65-year-old
man
in
the
case,
it
spared
him
a
jail
term
and
was
let
off
with
just
a
fine
of
Rs
1,000.