SC adjourns Sidhu road rage case
Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu in the Supreme Court on Thursday successfully sought the adjournment of a review of a 2018 judgment, which let him off with a ₹1,000 fine in a nearly 34yearold fatal road rage case.
A Special Bench of Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul rescheduled the case to February 25. The Punjab Assembly elections are due on February 20.
Mr. Sidhu’s lawyers, advocates P. Chidambaram and A. Karthik, sought time to get further instructions from their client.
They had sought an adjournment of four weeks. Mr. Chidambaram explained that he was asked to appear in the case only hours back and a new advocateonrecord was appointed.
Justice Khanwilkar, in turn, referred to a letter circulated by Mr. Sidhu’s side seeking adjournment. The judge said it mentioned the case was listed “unexpectedly”.
The court clarified the case was not listed “unexpectedly” and was already mentioned in the weekly advance list of cases prepared by the court registry. The court, however, did not entertain a request by senior advocate Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the family members of the man who died in the incident, to post the case in two weeks.
“The notice was issued in the case in September 2018... All this while you did not do anything, now you suddenly want to,” the Bench asked.