After being sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court in a 1988 road rage death case, former Punjab Congress Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered before a court in Patiala.
Sidhu’s jail term is a body blow to the Punjab Congress whose morale is already low after the rout in the assembly polls earlier this year, The Congress was voted out and replaced by AAP party of Arvind Kejriwal .
“He surrendered before the court of chief judicial magistrate Amit Malhan,” said senior advocate HPS Verma, who accompanied Sidhu to the court.
#WATCH | 1988 road rage case: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu reaches Patiala Court in Punjab.
Supreme Court had yesterday imposed one-year rigorous imprisonment on him in the three-decade-old road rage case. pic.twitter.com/iHu3bmbOls
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After surrender Sindhu and was taken for the mandatory medical examination, conducted at the Mata Kaushalya Hospital. After the medical check-up, he was lodged in the Patiala Central Jail.
This came just hours after the former Punjab Congress president approached the Supreme Court seeking a few week to surrender to serve the imprisonment.
The top court bench of justices A M Khanwilkar and J B Pardiwala told senior advocate A M Singhvi, appearing for Sidhu, that the judgment on one-year rigorous imprisonment was passed by a special bench, and that he can file the application and mention it before the chief justice.
Singhvi said he will try and mention the matter before the chief justice.
