New Delhi: Supreme Court convicted one year imprisonment to former cricketer and Punjab former PCC Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday in a 34 year old road rage case. The Court in its judgement said that Sidhu must surrender and serve a year’s rigorous imprisonment.

After hearing the Supreme Court verdict, Sidhu in a tweet said that he will submit to the majesty of law who had participated in a protest on fuel prices on Thursday morning. The Supreme Court gave its ruling on a petition by the family of a man who died after a brawl with Sidhu and his friend in 1988. The family had asked for graver charges against Sidhu and a review of a 2018 order of the Supreme Court acquitting him of murder charges and imposing a ₹ 1,000 fine.

The incident took place on December 27^th, 1988, Sidhu got into an argument with Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking spot. Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of his car and hit him. He later died in hospital. In 1999, a session’s court in Patiala acquitted Sidhu citing lack of evidence and giving him the benefit of the doubt.

On a petition challenging this verdict, the Punjab and Haryana High court convicted Sidhu in 2006 of culpable homicide and sentenced him to three years in jail. In 2018, Sidhu approached the Supreme Court, which said the case was over 30 years old and Sidhu had not used a weapon. Sidhu was only held guilty of assaulting a senior citizen, spared a jail term and fined ₹ 1,000. The Supreme Court also acquitted Sidhu’s friend of all charges saying there was no proper evidence he was present at the spot.