‘For cricketers, hand can even be notion about weapon’: Supreme Court docket on Navjot Singh Sidhu’s freeway rage case

The Supreme Court docket on Thursday delivered a key verdict in the 1988 freeway rage case provocative Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu, sentencing him to one yr of rigorous imprisonment. Whereas asserting the sentence, the court acknowledged that a “hand is a weapon” in relation to a cricketer.Whereas hearing the plea filed by the family of the deceased sufferer, the apex court acknowledged that ‘hand can additionally be a weapon when a cricketer or extremely physically fit particular person inflicts the the same’. The bench extra remarked that a disproportionately gentle punishment humiliates and frustrates a sufferer of crime when the culprit goes unpunished or is let off with a quite minor punishment.The apex court bench, comprising of Justices AM Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul, sentenced Sidhu to jail in the 34-yr-mature freeway rage case, whereby an elderly particular person lost his existence after being struck by the Congress chief on his head, according to reports.Whereas handing over the choice, the court acknowledged, “The hand can additionally be a weapon by itself the place voice a boxer, a wrestler or a cricketer or an especially physically fit particular person inflicts the the same. This could well be understood the place a blow could presumably be given both by a physically fit particular person or to a more mature particular person.”“Insofar as the damage ended in is concerned, this Court docket has permitted the plea of a single blow by hand being given on the pinnacle of the deceased. In our scrutinize, it is this significance which is an error apparent on the face of the file desiring some remedial motion,” the apex court extra added, as per PTI reports.The court extra seen that the blow was as soon as no longer inflicted on a particular person identically physically placed nevertheless on a 65-yr-mature particular person, bigger than double his age and Sidhu can no longer voice that he did no longer know the attain of the blow or plead lack of consciousness on this aspect.(With PTI inputs)READ | 1988 freeway rage case: Will Navjot Singh Sidhu have the choice to contest polls in future?