Chandigarh: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday evening received a candlelight welcome when he arrived in Chandigarh for a hearing on the quantum of sentence after being convicted of homicide.
Accompanied by BJP leader and former law minister Arun Jaitley, Sidhu arrived here from New Delhi by the Shatabdi Express.
Over 500 youth and BJP activists, carrying candles, welcomed him as he alighted from the train. Sidhu briefly addressed them before being driven away.
On Friday, Sidhu was convicted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in an 18-year-old case of causing the death of a man in Patiala in a road rage case.
The High Court fixed December 6 as the date to start hearings for spelling out his sentence.
Sidhu is charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, a charge that carries up to 10 years in prison.
Sidhu, who represented the Sikh holy city of Amritsar in the Lok Sabha, had resigned the seat following his conviction.
Patiala resident Gurnam Singh had died in 1988 after a scuffle with Sidhu and his friend R S Sandhu following a row over parking in Patiala town.
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