New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved verdict on appeals filed by former cricketer and Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu in a road rage case resulting in the death of 65-year-old man in 1988.
A Bench of Justices J. Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul reserved verdict even as counsel for Punjab maintained that the apex court should confirm the Punjab and Haryana high court judgment awarding three years imprisonment treating it as ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’.
It was also submitted on behalf of Mr Sidhu that no witness came forward voluntarily to depose and statements of those witnesses recorded by the police are contradictory Mr Sidhu also argued that Gurnam Singh died of a heart attack. The co-accused questioned the High Court verdict, which reversed the trial court's order of acquittal.
