New Delhi May 15 (IANS) In a big relief to former cricketer and Punjab Tourism Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu the Supreme Court on Tuesday acquitted him from culpable homicide charges in a 30-year-old road rage case for which he was awarded three-year jail term.
A bench of Justice J. Chelameswar and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul acquitted Sidhu of culpable homicide not amounting to murder charges but convicted him for causing simple injury and imposed a fine of Rs 1 000 without any jail term.
The court also acquitted other accused his cousin Rupinder Singh Sandhu of all charges.

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