Navjot Sidhu handed one-year prison sentence

Navjot Sidhu 

Navjot Sidhu has been handed a one-year prison sentence by the Supreme Court of India which was reviewing a case involving the former India batter in 1988 in which one Gurnam Singh died.

The verdict was announced on Thursday by the two-judge bench comprising Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul which was reviewing its own order from 2018 when the court had reduced Sidhu’s sentence from three years’ imprisonment to INR 1000 fine.

“We have allowed review application on the issue of sentence,” the court said on Friday, according to legal media website livelaw.in “In addition to the fine imposed, we impose a sentence of imprisonment of one year to be undergone by respondent one (Sidhu).”

The incident took place on 27 December 1988 in the north Indian city of Patiala in Punjab when Sidhu pulled Gurnam, who was 65 years old, out of his vehicle and assaulted him physically with his fists.