HC finds Sidhu guilty for culpable homicide
: In a major embarrassment to BJP, its high profile MP and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu was today convicted by Punjab and Haryana High Court for the death of a person following a scuffle in 1988, overturning a lower court verdict acquitting...
By PTI |
CHANDIGARH: In a major embarrassment to BJP, its high profile MP and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu was today convicted by Punjab and Haryana High Court for the death of a person following a scuffle in 1988, overturning a lower court verdict acquitting him.
Besides 43-year-old Sidhu, the High Court also convicted his accomplice Bhupinder Singh Sandhu, who too was acquitted by the lower court.
A division bench comprising Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Baldev Singh found both of them guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder of Gurnam Singh in Patiala on December 27, 1988.
The court fixed December 6 for pronouncing the quantum of sentence, which could range from ten years in prison to life imprisonment.
Sidhu was in Parliament when the High Court order came. He immediately left the premises and became incommunicado.
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