Navjot Singh Sidhu gets one year jail sentence in 1988 road rage case

The Supreme Court on Thursday awarded one-year jail term to former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu in a three-decade-old road rage case. Sidhu has been awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment. The Sessions Court Judge of Patiala had on September 22, 1999, acquitted Sidhu and his associate, due to a lack of evidence in the case and giving the benefit of the doubt.

It was then challenged by the victim’s families before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which had in 2006, convicted and sentenced Sidhu to three years imprisonment. Sidhu then filed an appeal before the apex court challenging this order.On December 27, 1988, Sidhu allegedly beat Gurnam Singh on his head, leading to his death.