INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Navjot Singh Sidhu had appealed in the top court challenging the HC order convicting him.New Delhi: Punjab
minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has been found guilty of causing injuries to a person in a 30-year-old road rage case and fined Rs 1,000 by the
The cricketer-turned-politician won't go to jail and will retain his portfolio in the Punjab government.Navjot Singh Sidhu had appealed in
the top court challenging the Punjab and Haryana HC order convicting him.Mr Sidhu had hit a 65-year-old man, Gurnam Singh, on the head
during an argument on a road in Patiala on December 27, 1988
Gurnam Singh died of a haemorrhage at the hospital.A trial court had discharged Mr Sidhu, but the High Court reversed it and held him guilty
of culpable homicide in 2006
He was given three years in jail
In 2007, the Supreme Court suspended Mr Sidhu's sentence and granted him bail after he appealed his conviction by the Punjab and Haryana
The suspended sentence enabled him to contest the Lok Sabha bypolls from Amritsar.For the latest Election Results Live Updates from
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