New Delhi: Cricketer-turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday moved the Supreme Court seeking stay of the three-year conviction imposed on him in a homicide case.
The 43-year-old cricket commentator was sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on December 6 for causing the death of a man in a road rage case in Patiala 18 years ago.
The stay, if granted, will enable the former BJP MP contest Lok Sabha byelection. Sidhu had resigned as BJP member of Lok Sabha after his conviction.
If the conviction imposed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court was stayed it would enable him contest the forthcoming by-election from Amritsar parliamentary constituency in Punjab, pleaded Sidhu's senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi.
The High Court suspended the sentence till January 31 to enable Sidhu, currently on bail, to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court.
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