From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday opposed the application in the Supreme Court for enlarging the scope of the 2018 road rage case against him.In his reply to the Court’s notice on the application by family meembers of the victim in a review petition in the 3-decade old case, Sidhu submitted that the application was devoid of any merits and ought to bee dismissed. The top court adjourned the matter to Friday for further hearing.On December 27, 1988, Sidhu had allegedly beat Gurnam Singh on his head, leading to his death. The sessions court of Patiala had on September 22, 1999 acquitted him and his associate due to lack of evidence, giving him behefit of doubt.
NEW DELHI: Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday opposed the application in the Supreme Court for enlarging the scope of the 2018 road rage case against him.In his reply to the Court’s notice on the application by family meembers of the victim in a review petition in the 3-decade old case, Sidhu submitted that the application was devoid of any merits and ought to bee dismissed. The top court adjourned the matter to Friday for further hearing.On December 27, 1988, Sidhu had allegedly beat Gurnam Singh on his head, leading to his death. The sessions court of Patiala had on September 22, 1999 acquitted him and his associate due to lack of evidence, giving him behefit of doubt.
On a challenge by the victim’s family, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had convicted him in 2006 and sentenced him to three years of jail. The apex court, however, gave him relief with the acquittal and charged him with the offence of voluntarily causing hrt and slapping him with a fine of paltry Rs 1,000. His associate Rupinder Singh Sandhu was also acquitted. The victim’s family has filed the review petition.
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