Cricket Navjot Singh Sidhu sentenced to one-year jail within the 1988 street rage case: Former Indian cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment by the Supreme Court of India in a 1988 street rage case. On 27 December 1988, Sidhu allegedly hit an individual named Gurnam Singh in his head which led to the latter’s dying.
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The verdict of the 1988 street rage case was introduced by the bench of two judges comprising Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul on Thursday.
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“We have allowed review application on the issue of sentence,” the courtroom stated on Friday, in accordance with authorized media web site livelaw.in. “In addition to fine imposed, we impose a sentence of imprisonment of one year to be undergone by respondent 1(Sidhu).”
The incident occurred within the northern metropolis of Patiala the place Navjot Singh Sidhu pulled out a person named Gurnam Singh out of his car and assaulted him together with his fists.
Notably, Justice Justice Kaul was part of the bench in 2018 which reviewed a case on Navjot Singh Sidhu voluntarily hurting a person, nonetheless, the courtroom acquitted the previous cricketer of culpable murder.
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However, 4 years in the past, the then cricketer was discovered responsible of voluntarily hurting a person named Gurman.
Later the courtroom reversed the judgement of the Haryana and Punjab High Court, which had discovered Sidhu responsible of culpable murder in 2006 and sentenced him a 3 years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court of India thought that the decision was not based mostly on pure proof however conjecture.
“…the conclusion of the High Court that Gurnam Singh’s death is caused by subdural hemorrhage but not cardiac arrest, in our opinion, is not based on any evidence on record and is a pure conjecture,” Justice Chelameshwar had stated, in accordance with livelaw.in, “We, therefore, find it difficult to sustain the conviction of the first accused and set aside the same. Because to find a man guilty of culpable homicide, the basic fact required to be es established is that the accused caused the death. But, as noticed above, the medical evidence is absolutely uncertain regarding the cause of death of Gurnam Singh.”
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