1988 Road Rage Case: SC sentences Navjot Singh Sidhu to one-year rigorous imprisonment

New Delhi: Former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu was on Thursday sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a three decade old road rage case.

The order was delivered by a bench of justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul.

Navjot Sidhu, 58, has to surrender before a court to serve a year's "rigorous imprisonment". "Will submit to the majesty of law...," tweeted the former Punjab Congress chief.

The Supreme Court was hearing a petition by the family of the victim who had died after a brawl with Sidhu and his associate in 1988.

On December 27, 1988, Sidhu got into an argument with Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking spot. Sidhu and his associate, Rupinder Singh Sandhu, allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of his car and hit him. He later died.

In 1999, a sessions court in Patiala acquitted Sidhu and his associate citing lack of evidence and giving the benefit of the doubt.

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