New Delhi: Jailed Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur Sidhu on Saturday said gangsters and hardcore criminals can have access to the relief of the government policies but her husband is denied any such measure.
"Gangsters, drug lords, hardcore criminals, rapists can get bail and have access to relief by govt policies but a truthful, honest person suffering for a crime he has not committed is devoid of justice and relief given by the centre. GOD please bless those who have forgotten YOU," she wrote on Twitter.
Sidhu is currently serving a yearlong sentence in Patiala central prison in a 1988 road rage death case. The former Punjab Congress chief, was jailed on May 20 last year, following his surrender before a court in Patiala after he was sentenced to one-year rigorous imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
Former Punjab Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, among other Punjab Congress leaders, had on Thursday lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party government for not releasing Sidhu prematurely from the Patiala prison, as reported by the news agency PTI. The family members and his supporters were earlier expecting that Sidhu could be among the prisoners who might be given special remission on Republic Day.
Dullo had said that the states granted special remission to certain prisoners with good behaviour on January 26 and August 15. He further claimed that Sidhu's name figured in the list of 51 prisoners eligible for early release on Republic Day, PTI reported.
The top court had in its order said any sympathy in imposing an inadequate sentence would do more harm to the justice system and undermine the public confidence in the efficacy of law. Though SC had in May 2018 held Sidhu guilty of "voluntarily causing hurt" to the man, it had spared him a jail term and imposed on him a fine of Rs 1,000.