Year: 2022

Despite jail term, Sidhu can contest polls: Legal expert

Despite jail term, Sidhu can contest polls: Legal expert

Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu can contest future elections despite the Supreme Court sentencing him to one-year jail in a 1988 road rage case, a legal expert said on Thursday, citing provisions of the electoral law. “If the sentence was two years or more, then he would have been disqualified