Soon after the Supreme Court imposed a one-year jail term on him in a 1988 road rage case, former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said on May 19 he "will submit to the majesty of law." Sidhu was in Patiala to take part in a protest against inflation. "Will submit to the majesty of law...," he said in a tweet.
A Bench of Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and S. K. Kaul on May 19 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 offence of "voluntarily causing hurt" to a 65-year-old man in the case, it spared him a jail term and imposed a fine of ₹1,000.
