Is Navjot Sidhu hurt by Captain Government stand in SC?
Chandigarh, April 13, 2018: Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu has refused to comment on the stand of his party’s government in the Supreme Court in the road rage case he is facing.
“Whether I am shocked or annoyed, I am not going to share with anybody. I will not blame anybody either. Whatever the verdict, I will alone bear the burden,” he said.
In his interaction with the media on his return from Andhra Pradesh, Sidhu sounded very careful in expressing his views. “I have full faith in the judiciary. I have retained this faith for the last 30 years and will continue to retain it in future as well. I am hopeful of getting justice,” he added.
When asked about the Captain government’s stand in the SC, Sidhu said that only the CM or the Advocate General could comment on this. “I will not comment,” he reiterated.
The state government has urged the SC to uphold the three-year jail sentence ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the road rage case in which an old man Gurnam Singh had died in Patiala. This is the same stand taken by the state government in the HC in this case in 2006 when Captain Amarinder Singh was the Chief Minister. Sidhu was the BJP Member of Parliament at that time.
Sidhu had challenged the HC order in the SC which had granted him bail. The hearing in the case is going on. The verdict is awaited.
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