CHANDIGARH: Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said he will submit to the law on his 1988 road rage case. The comment came after the Punjab government told the Supreme Court that it supported his conviction in the case. Sidhu said, “I don't have any reactions. You submit to the majesty of the law.
Punjab government counsel Sanram Singh Saron told the SC that it supported the Punjab and Haryana High Court's conviction and the three-year sentence it had handed to the cricketer-turned-politician. Saron also said that there was no evidence to support the judgement of the trial court to conclude that the victim had died of cardiac arrest. The Punjab government lawyer had also categorically stated that Sidhu's statement to the court denying his involvement was false. Sidhu's lawyer RS Cheema is all set to offer rebuttal to the Punjab government's contentions on April 17. The prosecution maintains that Sidhu and a friend were present in a car parked near Sheranwala Gate Crossing on December 27, 1988.
Gurnam Singh and two others were going to bank. They found Sidhu's car blocking the way when they reached Sheranwale Gate Crossing, and called for the care to be moved. A heated exchange took place in which Sidhu allegedly dealt one blow to Gurnam Singh, who was declared dead on arrival at the hospital. Sidhu had been acquitted of the murder charges by a trial court in September 1999, stating the 65 year old had died of a heart attack and not brain haemorrhage. The verdict was however reversed by the High Court in 2006. It also held Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
