Chandigarh (TIP)-The Supreme Court today deferred to February 25 the hearing on a petition seeking review of its 2018 order letting off Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu with a fine of Rs 1,000 in a 32-year-old road rage case in which one Gurnam Singh had died.

The order by a Bench of Justice AM Khanwilkar and Justice SK Kaul came as a reprieve for the cricketer-turned-politician ahead of the Punjab Assembly poll to be held on February 20. The deferment came after senior advocate P Chidambaram, representing Sidhu, submitted that the advocate-on-record in the case was changed last night and he needed time to file reply to the review petition. Initially, the Bench proposed to defer it to February 21 but finally it posted the matter for hearing on February 25 as Chidambaram urged that it be listed on any date after February 23. “On a lighter side, two weeks’ time is crucial for him,” the top court said.

The Bench took exception to a letter circulated by Sidhu’s new counsel seeking four-week adjournment that said the matter had been “unexpectedly listed”.               Source: TNS