Navjot Singh Sidhu walks out of Patiala jail to grand 'dhol' welcome

Patiala: Cricket-turned-politician and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was released from Patiala jail today, approximately 10 months after he was sentenced to one-year jail by the Supreme Court in a three-decade-old road rage case.

On May 19, last year, Sidhu was sentenced to one year of imprisonment by the Supreme Court in the 1988 case of road rage in which Sidhu allegedly thrashed one Gurnam Singh, who later died in hospital.

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Several Congress workers with 'dhols' outside the jail welcomed the cricketer-turned-politician. On Friday, Punjab Minister Brahm Shankar Jimpa said that the Punjab government has no objection to the release of Sidhu. (with Agency inputs)

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