New Delhi: In setback for Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, the Supreme Court has agreed to re-examine the sentence awarded by it to the cricketer turned politician in a 30-year-old road rage case.
The apex court had on May 15 set aside the Punjab and Haryana High Court order convicting him of culpable homicide and awarding him three-year jail term, but held him guilty of minor offence of causing hurt to a senior citizen and spared him of jail term.
The Supreme Court had however imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on Sidhu for the offence under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC
A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul agreed to examine a review petition filed by family members of deceased Jaswinder Singh and issued notice to Sidhu in the case.
"Issue notice restricted to quantum of sentence qua respondent no. 1 Navjot
Singh Sidhu," the bench said in an order which was uploaded on apex court website on Wednesday.