The Supreme Court on Friday sought Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu’s stand on a plea to review an earlier ruling which had let him off lightly with a fine of ₹1,000.The SC had in a 2018 verdict reduced his jail term from three years to ₹1,000. The victim’s son has contested the lighter sentence to him.Sidhu has opposed this plea through his lawyers. He said that he has led an exemplary life since the 1987 road rage incident in which he allegedly had a run-in with the victim. He has been a parliamentarian and worked for the public good, he said.
The high court had sentenced him to three years on the grounds that the victim had died following a heart attack. Senior advocate P Chidambaram appeared for Sidhu in court. He argued that a notice was issued on a plea to review the judgement only on the aspect of the sentence. Now the family was seeking to reopen the whole issue by contending that Sidhu was charged for the wrong offence.Instead, senior advocate Siddharth Luthra urged the court to try him on homicide charges. “The scope of the notice cannot be enlarged,” Chidambaram argued.Sidhu was punished under Sec 323, IPC, that provides for punishment of a year for voluntarily causing hurt.
Source: Economic Times
