May 19, 2022: The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to one-year imprisonment in the 1988 road rage case.
A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S K Kaul allowed the review plea filed by the victim's family on the issue of the sentence awarded to Sidhu.
Though the apex court had in May 2018 held Sidhu guilty of the offense of ''voluntarily causing hurt'' to a 65-year-old man in the case, it spared him a jail term and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to one-year imprisonment in the 1988 road rage case
May 19, 2022: The Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu to one-year imprisonment in the 1988 road rage case.
A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S K Kaul allowed the review plea filed by the victim's family on the issue of the sentence awarded to Sidhu.
Though the apex court had in May 2018 held Sidhu guilty of the offense of ''voluntarily causing hurt'' to a 65-year-old man in the case, it spared him a jail term and imposed a fine of Rs 1,000.