1988 road rage case: Punjab govt's hypocrisy exposed, says Harsimrat Badal
Referring to the 1988 road rage case, Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur said on Friday that Punjab government's hypocrisy has been exposed, wherein Punjab Congress leader and minister Navjot Singh Sidhu is the prime accused.
Family of the victim has appealed to the Supreme Court that earlier imprisonment sentence of three years given by Punjab and Haryana High Court should be enhanced. However, the Punjab government has appealed the apex court to uphold the three-year imprisonment.
Seeking punishment for Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu in connection with a 1988 road rage case, Harsimrat Badal said that the Punjab government seems confused.
"Their hypocrisy is exposed. The person who killed a poor man should be punished. Lawyer is giving one statement but CM is giving another. The government is in a state of confusion," said Kaur.
The Punjab government on Thursday sought conviction of Sidhu in the road rage case.
The lawyer appearing for the Punjab government told Supreme Court that the statement given by Sidhu denying his involvement in the case was false.
Counsel for Punjab government yesterday told a bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul that Gurnam Singh had died of brain hemorrhage, and not cardiac arrest, after being struck by Sidhu.
Back on December 27, 1988, when Sidhu allegedly hit one Gurnam Singh, 65, in an incident of road rage in Patiala, Punjab, resulting in death of the latter.
-PTC News
