Navjot Singh Sidhu acquitted of homicide, convicted of causing hurt in 1988 road rage case

Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is the tourism minister in the Amarinder Singh government in Punjab, had allegedly hit a 65-year-old man on the head during an argument over the parking of a car in December 1988. Singh later died in a hospital. Sidhu was acquitted of the murder charges by a trial court in September 1999. However, the Punjab high court reversed the verdict and held Sidhu and his co-accused Rupinder Singh Sandhu guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in December 2006. It sentenced them to three years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each. Both Sidhu and Sandhu filed an appeal in the Supreme Court, which stayed their conviction in 2007, paving the way for Sidhu to contest the by-poll for Amritsar Lok Sabha seat. Sandhu was also was acquitted by the Supreme Court.