Four months after the Supreme Court let off ex-cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu with a paltry Rs 1,000
fine in a 30-year-old case in which a person died, another SC bench on 11 September agreed to reexamine
the quantum of punishment to the Punjab Congress MLA.
Allowing a plea for reconsideration of the judgment that altered Sidhu’s conviction to Section 323 of
the IPC from the stringent Section 304-II, as was recorded by the Punjab and Haryana HC, a bench of
Justices A M Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul said it would only reconsider the sufficiency of
punishment given to him.
In its May 15 verdict, a bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Kaul had said Sidhu could not be held
responsible for causing the death of one Gurnam Singh, who died after allegedly being given fist blows
by the Punjab legislator. PTI
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