NEW DELHI: On the heels of a humiliating electoral defeat, former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court on Thursday in a 1988 road rage case in which a person had died from fistblow inuries.
Admitting that the March 15, 2018 judgment by a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar was unduly lenient in letting off Sidhu with a mere fine of Rs 1,000 in a case under Section 323 of IPC (voluntarily causing hurt) , a bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Sanjay K Kaul remedied the error by imposing one year rigorous imprisonment on the former international cricketer, in addition to the fine. However, the bench refused to expand the scope of offence to culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304-II of IPC.
