The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear a plea seeking the review of its May 15, 2018 verdict where senior Congress leadeft Navjot Singh Sidhu was fined with Rs 1,000 in 1988 road rage case in Punjab where a residence from Patialia had died.
A bench of justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and AM Khanwilkar are set to hear the plea of the family of the victim, Gurnam Singh.
Sidhu was charged under section 323 of the Indian Penal Code for voluntary causing hurt, however he was let off with just fine. The top court had observed that the incident was more than 30 years old, and there was no past hostility between accused and victim. The court also noted that no weapon was used by the accused.
Supreme Court had set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order that had given the output which convicted Sidhu of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced him to three-year jails.
