Sidhu gets three-year jail term, Rs 1 lakh fine

Chandigarh, Dec 6 (UNI) Former BJP MP and ex-cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu was today sentenced to three-year imprisonment and fined Rs one lakh by the Punjab and Haryana High Court for causing death of a Patiala resident in an 18-year-old road rage case.

A division bench comprising Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Baldev Singh, however, suspended the sentence till January 31 to enable Sidhu to appeal in the Supreme Court.

The bench has also directed Sidhu to appear before the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh, to furnish a bail bond of Rs one lakh on December eight.

The High Court had on December one, found the 43-year-old Sidhu guilty under section 304-Part-II of IPC for committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder, overturning his acquittal by a lower court.

Sidhu, a star BJP parliamentarian, quit his Lok Sabha seat from Amritsar following his conviction on moral grounds.

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