Chandigarh, 19/5: 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 from contesting elections for six years,” legal expert and former Lok Sabha secretary general P D T Achary told PTI, citing Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act-1951 which deals with disqualification.
The former cricketer had recently contested the assembly polls but had lost.