PTI
Patiala, May 20
Congress Leader Navjot Singh Sidhu surrendered in court here on Friday, the day after his sentencing one-year Imprisonment by the Supreme Court in 1988 Rage on the road death Issue.
“I surrendered in court of Chief Justice Amit Malhan said: senior advocate HPS Firma, who Accompany Seydoux to court.
The former The Speaker of the Punjab Congress surrendered shortly after 4 pm, and was captured for Compulsory medical examination conducted at Mata Kushalia Hospital. After the medical examination-uphas been added in Patiala Central Prison.
Some party He was accompanied by leaders including Navtej Singh Cheema, Ashwani Sakhri and Sidhu supporters home To the court near his residence.
Shema Seidu drove, who He was wearing in Blue suit for court in four wheel car.
This came just hours distance former The President of the Punjab Congress approached the Supreme Court asking him for a few weeks to surrender to serve the prison term.
Supreme court bench of justices Said AM Khanwilkar and JB Pardiwala senior advocate A.M. Singhvi, Encore for Seydoux, that verdict on one-year A strict prison sentence was issued by A special benchAnd that he can submit the request and state it before the Chief Justice.
Singhvi said he will try to mention the matter to the Chief Justice.
behind in Patiala, some former MLAs turned supporters up In Sidhu’s house in In the morning show they supportbut no prominent congressional leader from the state unit was seen in his home home or in court with for him.
However, President of the Punjab Congress Amarinder Singh Raja Warang and senior Chief Pratap Singh Bajwa expressed support to sidhu on social media and with they both say in In their tweets that while they respect the ruling of the Supreme Court, they stand by Seydou and his master family.
The cricketer’s wife, Navjot Kaur Sidu, turned politician, has arrived at their residence in Patiala. on Thursday night.
SC . had on Thursday Judgment on Sidhu one-year strict prison in Case, saying no needless sympathy in Imposing an inappropriate punishment will do the trick more damage to justice system and undermining public confidence in Effectiveness of Law.
A 65.year-old man named Gurnam Singh died in the incident. When reporters sought Sidhu’s reaction to the verdict on Thursday, was declined to comment. However, he later tweeted that he would “subject to His Majesty of Law”.
Although the Supreme Court has in May 2018 Sidhu held guilty of the crime of “voluntarily causing harm” to the man, he was saved by A jail term and fined of 1000 rupees.
gurnam singh family sought review of The ruling authorized by the Security Council.
“We feel there error Clear on The face of record…so, we let review Application on The issue of Wholesale. In addition to the fine imposed, we consider it appropriate to impose a penalty of the prison for interval of one year,” The bench He said while pronouncing the sentence.
Seydou, former BJP MP, turning over To the future Congress of Assembly polls for 2017. For months before the 2022 General Assembly elections in State, Seydoux was engaged in conflict with Amarinder Singh, who He was then the president minister of State as leader of Congress.
The top leadership in Congress forced Amarinder Singh out After he was targeted by Sido for months over Promises are “unfulfilled” by the government, and the differences between them cannot be settled. It was Sido then made The party is the head of the state unit.
Both Seydoux and Congress leader Sunil Jakkar, who recently left party And joined Looks like the BJP is looking at the leader minister’s post But the high command chose Charangit Singh Chani to replace Amarinder Singh.
Seydoux started his politics innings in 2004 run for Lok Sabha elections on A BJP ticket From Amritsar, where he moved his base from Patiala. Congress defeated heavyweight RL Bhatia.
The former cricket player relationship with exchange family She soured even though Shiromani Akali Dal was an ally of the BJP at the time. And then he had a problems with BJP post party Sent by Arun Jaitley from Amritsar in Lok Sabha Surveys 2014. Although it has been absorbed in The Rajya Sabha later, the dissident politician resigned from party to join Conference. .
