Navjot Singh Sidhu, 58, was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment in a 1988 road-rage case by the Supreme Court.

Sidhu has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment in the 1988 road rage case. The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered its order on the review petition in a three-decade-old road rage case filed by the victim's family against Navjot Singh Sidhu. 

The Supreme Court Thursday imposed a sentence of one-year rigorous imprisonment on the cricketer-turned-politician in the 1988 road rage case, saying any undue sympathy to impose an inadequate sentence would do more harm to the justice system and undermine the public confidence in the efficacy of law.

Navjot Singh Sidhu was sent to one year in jail in connection to a road rage incident where a 65-year-old man passed away. The incident took place in 1988.

The order was delivered by a bench of justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul today.

The order will be delivered by a bench of justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul. Earlier, the court had reserved the order on an application seeking to enlarge scope of notice in a road rage case against Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Earlier, AICC Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Chaudhary had sought action against Sidhu. In the letter dated April 23, which surfaced on Monday, Chaudhary had also forwarded a detailed note by Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring regarding Sidhu's "current activities".

The letter also mentioned Sidhu's ''inexcusable'' actions at the assumption ceremony of Warring. It said that Sidhu just greeted the incumbent PCC chief and left, while other leaders presented a united front.

Recently, the poll strategist had declined the Congress party's offer to join it.

Former Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said he considered Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann his younger brother who will support the fight against the mafia.

Former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu further added that the government will be held accountable for all its actions in the Punjab.

The incident took place when the cricketer-turned-politician was addressing the Congress leaders and workers during the protest against the BJP-led central government over the continued rise in petrol, diesel, and cooking gas prices outside the Punjab Congress Bhawan, when state Congress youth chief Brinder Singh Dhillon interrupted Sidhu.

Sidhu tweeted a video clip from last year in which Arvind Kejriwal is heard saying that action can be taken against the accused in the sacrilege incidents within 24 hours. 

The Aam Aadmi Party nominated former cricketer Harbhajan Singh, Lovely Professional University founder Ashok Mittal, AAP MLA Raghav Chadha, IIT Delhi faculty Sandeep Pathak and industrialist Sanjeev Arora for the March 31 Rajya Sabha polls. 

Navjot Singh Sidhu had made the remark welcoming the change, ushered by the people and emphasising that their verdict should be 'humbly accepted'.

Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu was defeated from the Amritsar East seat in the recently concluded Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections. AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevanjyot Kaur defeated Sidhu by a margin of 6,750 votes.

The Congress interim chief has also asked the PCC Presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur to put in their resignations in order to facilitate reorganisation of post

For the unversed, Navjot Singh Sidhu was a popular face of 'The Kapil Sharma Show'. But later he was replaced by Archana Puran Singh as he pursued his political career. She was recently trolled after Sidhu faced a defeat at Punjab Assembly Polls.

AAP candidate and political greenhorn Jeevanjyot Kaur defeated Sidhu by a margin of 6,750 votes.

Navjot Singh Sidhu was a popular face of 'The Kapil Sharma Show'. But later he was replaced by Archana Puran Singh as he pursued his political career. He was the one who sat on the chair and laughed his lungs out on Kapil's jokes.