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Supreme Court To Hear On Thursday Navjot Singh Sidhu Road rage Case

New Delhi, Feb 2 : The Supreme Court will hear on Thursday the plea filed by victims family seeking review of its May 15, 2018, verdict, that let off Sidhu with a mere Rs 1,000 fine in a 1988 road rage case in which a Patiala resident Gurnam Singh died. A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice A M Khanwilkar and also comprising Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul will tomorrow hear the case. The victims family had moved the Supreme Court seeking review of its May 15, 2018, verdict, that let off Sidhu with a mere Rs 1,000 fine in a 1988 road rage case in which a Patiala resident Gurnam Singh died. The Punjab and Haryana High Court had convicted Sidhu for voluntary causing hurt and sentenced him to 3 year jail, but the SC let him off with a mere fine only, after noting that the incident was more than 30 years old, there was no past enmity between accused and victim, no weapon was used by accused.

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