Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to one-year in jail by the Supreme Court docket on Thursday in a street rage case from 1988 during which one particular person was killed.

The previous Punjab Congress president was earlier let off with a advantageous of ₹1,000 by the highest court docket. The scope of punishment was enhanced by a Supreme Court docket bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and SK Kaul whereas listening to a overview plea filed by the sufferer’s household on the difficulty of the sentence awarded to Sidhu.

Final month, the highest court docket had reserved its order within the plea that had sought stricter punishment for the previous minister resembling culpable murder, and even homicide, than simply inflicting harm.

The cricketer-turned-politician had instructed the highest court docket that there was “no conclusive proof to point out that the only fist blow led to the dying of a 65-year-old man”. He had additionally accused the sufferer's household of constructing a "malicious try” to get the case reopened.

“There is no such thing as a conclusive proof that the harm brought on by the accused resulted within the dying of the particular person, as there was no proof in anyway that the dying was brought on by the only blow by the answering respondent (even assuming the incident did happen), this honourable court docket rightly concluded that the identical would fall below Part 323 IPC,” learn the affidavit filed by Sidhu earlier than the court docket.