Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu moved the Supreme Court on Friday searching for extra time to give up citing some “medical conditions”, after he was sentenced to at least one yr imprisonment by the highest courtroom in a 1988 highway rage case.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi talked about the matter earlier than Justice AM Khanwilkar who had headed the bench which delivered the decision towards Sidhu in assessment petition on Thursday.
The courtroom requested Singhvi to file a proper utility on the matter and point out it earlier than the bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana. Singhvi mentioned he’ll attempt to point out the matter earlier than the CJI.
“He will of course surrender shortly,” Singhvi instructed the bench, including, “We want a few weeks to surrender. It is after 34 years. He wants to organise his medical affairs.” The bench, additionally comprising Justice J B Pardiwala, instructed Singhvi that the judgement within the matter was handed by a particular bench.
“You can file that application and mention it before the Chief Justice. If the Chief Justice constitutes that bench today, we will consider that. If that bench is not available, it will have to be constituted. A special bench was constituted for that matter,” the bench noticed.
The apex courtroom had on Thursday imposed a sentence of one-year rigorous imprisonment on Sidhu within the case, saying any “undue sympathy” to impose an insufficient sentence would do extra hurt to the justice system and undermine the general public confidence within the efficacy of regulation.
The apex courtroom enhanced the sentence of Sidhu to one-year rigorous imprisonment within the highway rage incident during which a 65-year-old man had died. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and S Okay Kaul allowed a assessment plea filed by the sufferer’s household on the difficulty of the sentence awarded to Sidhu.
Sidhu, 58, took to Twitter to say he “will submit to the majesty of law” because the cricketer-turned-politician rode an elephant in Patiala earlier within the day to register a symbolic protest towards rising costs of important commodities.
Though the apex courtroom had in May 2018 held Sidhu responsible of the offence of “voluntarily causing hurt” to the 65-year-old man within the case, it spared him a jail time period and imposed a wonderful of Rs 1,000.
“…we feel there is an error apparent on the face of record…therefore, we have allowed the review application on the issue of sentence. In addition to the fine imposed, we consider it appropriate to impose a sentence of imprisonment for a period of one year…,” the bench mentioned whereas announcing the decision.
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