Navjot Sidhu, known for his sartorial choices, will now be seen wearing only fair clothes in jail.
New Delhi:
Navjot Singh Sidhu of Congress is now prisoner number 241383 and is kept in barrack number 7 in Patiala Jail, Punjab.
Congress leaders on Friday Surrender in Patiala Court24 hours later, the Supreme Court sentenced him to one year in jail for a three-decade-old road rage incident in which one person died.
The 58-year-old surrendered soon after 4 pm, and was taken for a mandatory medical test, and then taken to jail in a police jeep.
Another high-profile prisoner and Mr Sidhu’s rival Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia is also lodged in the same jail.
Jailed for drugs, Bikram Majithia had contested against Sidhu from Amritsar East in the February-March assembly elections. Both the leaders lost the election to AAP’s Jeevanjot Kaur.
The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a one-year “rigorous imprisonment” for the cricketer-turned-politician, who had recently resigned as Punjab Congress chief following his party’s defeat in the state elections.
For now, prison life begins for the leader of Punjab.
What a Prison Day Looks Like:
5:30 am: Day begins early for prisoners
7 am: They are served biscuits or black gram with tea
8:30 am: Brunch (6 chapatis, lentils/vegetables), leaves for work
5:30 pm: Convicts complete category-wise allotted work
6 pm: Dinner (six chapatis, lentils/vegetables)
7 pm: Prisoners locked in their barracks
Prisoners earn Rs 30-90 a day.
For the first three months, convicts are trained without pay.
They earn Rs 30-90 a day after being classified as unskilled, semi-skilled or skilled prisoners.
Convicted criminals can work up to eight hours a day and their charges are borne by the government.
Mr Sidhu, who is known for his sartorial choices, will now be seen in jail wearing only whites.
On 27 December 1988, Sidhu got into an argument with Gurnam Singh, a resident of Patiala, over a parking lot. Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu allegedly dragged Gurnam Singh out of their car and hit him. He later died in the hospital.
An eyewitness had accused Sidhu of killing Gurnam Singh with a blow to the head.
Mr Sidhu was acquitted in 1999 by a local court for lack of evidence, but in 2006 the High Court convicted him of culpable homicide and sentenced him to three years in prison.
Mr Sidhu had filed an appeal in the Supreme Court, which commuted his sentence and dismissed the case after ordering the former cricketer to pay the fine, saying the incident was 30 years old and Mr Sidhu had used weapons. was not used.
But the victim’s family filed a petition for review of the 2018 verdict.