{"id":302596,"date":"2018-09-13T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302596"},"modified":"2018-09-13T09:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T09:12:19","slug":"sc-reopens-1988-road-rage-case-against-congress-leader-navjot-singh-sidhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc-reopens-1988-road-rage-case-against-congress-leader-navjot-singh-sidhu\/","title":{"rendered":"SC reopens 1988 road rage case against Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/supreme-court-permits-reservation-in-promotion-to-sc-st-employees\/supreme-court-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-299685\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299685 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/Supreme-Court-2.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a>Navjot Singh Sidhu, former cricketer-turned-politician and Punjab minister, is facing the possibility of receiving harsher punishment in a 1988 road rage case, in which a man named Gurnam Singh died 20 years ago. Sidhu was sentenced in the case four months ago, with a nominal fine of Rs. 1,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court (SC) has now agreed to entertain a petition filed by the family members of deceased Gurnam Singh seeking review of its May 15 verdict that let off Sidhu with Rs 1,000 fine in a 1988 road rage case citing there was no sufficient evidence to prove the harsher charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A SC bench of justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul issued notice to Punjab Minister Sidhu on September 12. \u201cIssue notice restricted to quantum of sentence qua respondent no. 1 \u2013 Navjot Singh Sidhu,\u201d the bench said in an order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sidhu refused to comment on \u2018reopening\u2019 of the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In May, a bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul sentenced the Congress leader with a fine. The May verdict allowed the cricketer-turned-politician to continue as a minister in the Punjab government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navjot Singh Sidhu, former cricketer-turned-politician and Punjab minister, is facing the possibility of receiving harsher punishment in a 1988 road rage case, in which a man named Gurnam Singh died 20 years ago. Sidhu was sentenced in the case four months ago, with a nominal fine of Rs. 1,000. The Supreme Court (SC) has now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1516,4976,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302597,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302596\/revisions\/302597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}