After being despatched to jail for a yr over a 1988 road-rage incident, Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu selected to skip dinner on his first night time in jail, sources have been quoted as saying to information company PTI.
Lodged in Barrack No.10 on the Patiala Central Jail in Punjab, Sidhu is housed with 4 different prisoners. Since he had already taken his dinner, Sidhu determined towards having his meal on the jail, sources additional informed PTI.
As part of his rigorous one-year sentence, the 58-year-old Sidhu may also be required to work in jail. Incidentally, Shiromani Akali Dal chief and Sidhu’s political rival Bikram Singh Majithia is lodged on the Central Jail over a drug case. Sidhu had stood towards Majithia from Amritsar East on this yr’s Punjab state meeting polls. Both of them misplaced to AAP candidate Jeevan Jyot Kaur.
On Friday, the Congress chief surrendered in a Patiala courtroom, a day after the Supreme Court sentenced Sidhu to 1 yr in jail. This growth got here moments after Sidhu had approached the apex courtroom asking extra time for give up on medical grounds.
Sidhu was concerned in a 34-year-old street rage incident which resulted within the dying of a 65-year-old man, Gurnam Singh. After permitting a overview petition from the sufferer’s household, the SC added a one-year jail time period to Sidhu’s sentence together with a nice of Rs 1,000, which was already imposed by the SC. “We have allowed a review application on the issue of the sentence. In addition to the fine imposed, we impose a sentence of imprisonment one one year to be undergone by respondent 1 (Sidhu),” Live Law quoted Justice Kaul as saying within the operative a part of the judgment.
On December 27, 1988, Sidhu and his good friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu, a co-accused within the case, parked a Gypsy automobile in the course of the street. On being requested to take away the automobile by Gurnam Singh, who was driving a Maruti automobile, Sidhu acquired down from his automobile and began beating up Gurnam Singh on the crossing, whereas eradicating Singh’s automobile keys earlier than working away. By the time Singh was dropped at the hospital, he was declared lifeless.
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