Sidhu to live in VIP cell, get normal food in jail

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Patiala, Jan 11 (UNI) Former cricketer and star campaigner of SAD-BJP alliance for Punjab assembly elections Navjot Singh Sidhu and his co-accused Rupinder Singh Sandhu, have been lodged in the newly-white washed VIP cell in his hometown Patiala's Central Jail in a road rage death case.

Clad in a blue track suit and a turban, a composed Sidhu smiled to his supporters as the sumo carrying him stopped at the main gate of the Patiala Central Jail around 1700 hrs and Chandigarh Police handed him over to Mr M M Sharma, inspector Rajpura police.

No one from Sidhu's family was present when he arrived here escorted by Mr Sharma. His wife Navjot Kaur, who is a doctor in a government hospital here and his two children, live here.

However, a large number of BJP workers led by BJP district president Anil Bajaj, SAD candidate from Patiala Surjit Singh Kohli and district president for SAD (urban) Indermohan Singh Bajaj had collected to 'welcome' the firebrand BJP former MP.

Sidhu's supporters raised slogans against Punjab government and in his support. He waived to them before he was driven into the jail premises.

According to jail authorities, Sidhu will be given normal food.

He and Sandhu are both being kept in the cell where SAD president Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Singh Badal were kept after their arrest by Amarinder Singh government in a corruption case.

The barrack was white washed in December when Punjab and Haryana High Court had convicted him. It was expected that he would be brought to Patiala jail but the court had granted stay on his sentence till January 10.

Sidhu, along with co-convict had surrendered in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate at Chandigarh today was ordered to be put in Patiala jail pending his appeal in the Supreme Court.

Sidhu was sentenced to three years imprisonment by Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 6 last year in a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304 A of IPC alongwith his Sandhu.

Sidhu's plea for staying the conviction is pending before the Supreme Court and will be heard tomorrow. It was a legal necessity to surrender in the court before the SC takes up his appeal.

UNI

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