The verdict was introduced on Thursday by the two-judge bench comprising Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul which was reviewing its personal order from 2018 when the court docket had diminished Sidhu’s sentence from three years’ imprisonment to INR 1000 high-quality.
“We have allowed review application on the issue of sentence,” the court docket mentioned on Friday, in keeping with authorized media web site livelaw.in. “In addition to fine imposed, we impose a sentence of imprisonment of one year to be undergone by respondent 1(Sidhu).”
The incident passed off on December 27, 1988 within the north Indian metropolis of Patiala in Punjab when Sidhu pulled Gurnam, who was 65 years outdated, out of his automobile and assaulted him bodily together with his fists.
According to livelaw.in, Justice Kaul was additionally a part of the two-judge bench in 2018, together with Justice J Chelameshwar, which had acquitted Sidhu of culpabale murder. However, 4 years in the past, the court docket did discover Sidhu responsible of “voluntarily causing hurt” to Gurnam.
The court docket again then had reversed the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which in 2006 had discovered Sidhu responsible of culpable murder and sentenced him to a few years’ imprisonment. The Supreme Court bench, although, thought the High Court’s verdict was based mostly on conjecture and never pure proof.
“…the conclusion of the High Court that Gurnam Singh’s death is caused by subdural hemorrhage but not cardiac arrest, in our opinion, is not based on any evidence on record and is a pure conjecture,” Justice Chelameshwar had mentioned, in keeping with livelaw.in, “We, therefore, find it difficult to sustain the conviction of the first accused and set aside the same. Because to find a man guilty of culpable homicide, the basic fact required to be es established is that the accused caused the death. But, as noticed above, the medical evidence is absolutely uncertain regarding the cause of death of Gurnam Singh.”