Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu rode an elephant in Patiala on Thursday, May 19, as a protest against rising inflation.
The leader attracted a huge crowd as he rode the animal on the streets and was seen waving a flag. The cricketer-turned-politician was protesting over rising inflation.
The Supreme Court Thursday awarded one-year jail term to former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu in a three-decade-old road rage case. Sidhu has been awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment.
The top court ruled in the matter of a review petition that was filed by the family of the road rage victim. The order was delivered by the bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Justice SK Kaul.The Supreme Court had earlier reserved its verdict on an application that was filed to seek the enlargement of the scope of notice in the case against Sidhu.
The application was moved in the apex court in connection with the review petition.Sidhu had urged the court to dismiss the petition seeking to enlarge the scope of the road rage case. The cricketer-turned-politician had referred to an earlier order of the Supreme Court wherein it was held that there was no proof to corroborate the claim that the victim had died due a single blow in the road rage case. Sidhu had contended that there was no merit in the application and it should be dismissed.
Sidhu was earlier set free by a court on culpable homicide charges but was found guilty of voluntarily causing hurt. The court had imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the Congress leader. In the same judgement, the trial court had acquitted Sidhu’s associate, Rupinder Singh Sandhu.
The case has so far been heard by the Sessions Court of Patiala, the Punjab and Haryana High Court and the Supreme Court.The incident took place on December 27, 1988 when Sidhu is alleged to have thrashed victim Gurnam Singh and hit him on his head. Singh had died later.