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It was by all means a big set back to Navjot Singh Sidhu being sentenced by Supreme Court for one year jail term in a 1988 road rage case.

On Thursday the 19th of May 2022, a two judge bench headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar along with Justice Sanjay Kishen Kaul pronounced that  –  “We allow the review application on the issue of sentence. In addition to the fine imposed, we impose an imprisonment of one year to be undergone by (Sidhu),”

The case old and dated December 27th, 1988 when Sidhu during his cricketing days was involved in an alleged road rase case and  assaulted one Gurnam Singh, who died after the alleged attack.

A Sessions Court Judge of Patiala had on September 22, 1999 acquitted Sidhu and his associate due to lack of evidence and by giving him the benefit of doubt.

But later, the Punjab and Haryana High Court convicted Sidhu under Section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sentenced him to three years in jail.

In 2018 a Supreme Court had let him off with a mere fine, noting that the incident was more than 30 years old and there was no past enmity between the accused and the victim and no weapon was used by the accused.

Subsequently, the family members of the deceased moved the Supreme Court by filing a review petition and sought a modification of the 2018 judgement.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the review petition filed by the family of Gurnam Singh.

It, however, rejected a plea of the victim for adding the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder on Sidhu.