Punjab Congress Navjot Singh Sidhu To Be Launched From Jail At present After 10-Month Sentence In Highway Rage Case, To Handle Media

New Delhi:

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu is ready to stroll out of Patiala jail immediately, 10 months after serving sentence in a road-rage incident during which a person was killed 34 years in the past. A tweet from his official account this morning stated that the 59-year-old cricketer-turned-politician will handle the media outdoors jail round midday.

On Friday, the Punjab Congress chief had put a tweet that he was knowledgeable by the “involved authorities” that he will probably be launched immediately.

The Congress chief was handed a one-year sentence within the highway rage case and was as a result of be launched in Might, however is being launched early on account of his “good behaviour”.

The Supreme Courtroom had final 12 months in Might ordered one-year “rigorous imprisonment” for the 59-year-old politician following a petition by the household of a person who died after a brawl with Mr Sidhu and his pal in 1988. The household had requested for a harsher sentence and a assessment of a 2018 order from the Supreme Courtroom acquitting him of homicide.

On December 27, 1988, Mr Sidhu received into an argument with 65-year-old Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking spot. Mr Sidhu and his pal, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of his automobile and hit him. He later died in a hospital.

Mr Sidhu was accused by an eyewitness of killing Gurnam Singh with a blow to the top.

The Supreme Courtroom in 2018 ordered Mr Sidhu to pay a advantageous of ₹ 1,000 rupees for voluntarily hurting an individual.

Nonetheless, the courtroom, reviewing its personal order, stated it thought-about it “applicable” to jail Mr Sidhu, saying “some aggravated culpability” have to be connected if an individual dies.