Meanwhile, the Patiala Jail department clarified that there had been no lapse in Sidhu’s security.
Digital Desk: Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu was brought to Rajindra Hospital in Patiala for a medical check-up on Monday. He was lodged in Patiala’s central jail in the 1988 road rage case.
Sidhu was reportedly lodged in jail on May 20, hours after his approach seeking a few weeks to surrender to undergo the one-year imprisonment in the case.
Meanwhile, the Patiala Jail department clarified that there had been no lapse in Sidhu’s security.
However, the clarification came as it was claimed that the former Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief had to share his barracks with an accused booked in drugs and illegal weapons cases.
Rupinder Singh, Sidhu’s friend, who the Supreme Court acquitted in the road rage case in 2018, had raised concerns about his safety at Patiala Jail. He claimed that Sidhu possesses the “key to the state’s and its youngsters’ future” and urged the jail administration to provide round-the-clock protection and “keep a tight eye on anyone getting close to Sidhu.”
According to reports, Congress politician Hardayal Singh also stated that illegal operations continue to occur in Punjab prisons and that authorities should maintain “tight vigilance” on a senior leader like Sidhu.
It may be mentioned that the case involves the death of a man named Gurnam Singh, a Patiala native, in December 1988, when Sidhu and a companion attacked him in a road rage incident.
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