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    SC acquits Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1988 road rage case

    SC acquits Navjot Singh Sidhu in 1988 road rage case

    By Gogona Saikia
    May 15, 2018
    11:49 am

    What's the story

    The SC has acquitted Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu in a 1988 road rage case, when he was accused of killing a man by hitting him on the head.

    A trial court had acquitted him and another of murder, but the HC reversed the verdict and awarded them three-year jail terms.

    Ironically, the Punjab government has supported the HC's judgement.

    Case

    Sidhu allegedly beat up a man over parking

    On December 27, 1988, Sidhu and Rupinder Singh Sandhu allegedly parked their Gypsy in the middle of the road near the Sheranwala Gate-Crossing, Patiala.

    When 65-year-old man Gurnam Singh reached the spot in a car, he asked them to move aside.

    Sidhu then beat up Singh. He also allegedly removed Singh's car keys before fleeing so he couldn't get medical help.

    Singh later died.

    Judgement

    Trial court acquits them, but HC reverses order

    In September'99, Sidhu was acquitted of murder, but in December'06, the Punjab and Haryana HC held them both guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

    It also imposed a fine of Rs. 1L each on both.

    Sidhu and Sandhu challenged the verdict in the SC; Sidhu claimed the evidence was contradictory and medical opinion was "vague."

    In 2007, the court stayed their conviction.

    Punjab

    Punjab government ironically stands against their minister

    Incidentally, the Amarinder Singh government, under which Sidhu is serving as tourism minister, favored the HC's judgement in the SC.

    It argued that the "the trial court verdict was rightly set aside and Sidhu had given fist blow to deceased Gurnam Singh, leading to his death through brain haemorrhage."

    The trial court's conclusion that Singh had died of cardiac arrest was incorrect, it said.

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