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    Who would have thought all those words could translate into action?

    By Scott 2 years ago, at the start of December Leave a comment on this post

    This I did not expect.

    FORMER India cricketer and politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was sentenced to three years in prison for a road-rage killing 18 years ago, the second high-profile politician to be jailed in as many days.

    The Punjab and Haryana High Court, however, suspended the sentence until January 31, giving Sidhu, who is also a popular TV host and commentator, time to appeal.

    The court had last week found 43-year-old Sidhu guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

    Sidhu was involved in a car accident in his hometown of Patiala in the northern state of Punjab in 1988. The batsman was accused of getting into a fight with the occupant of the other car and beating him up, leading to his death.

    To be brutally honest, I was expecting that any killing with Sidhu around would involve him getting killed by some irate fan who had heard one more dodgy cliche than human endurance can bear.

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    One Response to “Who would have thought all those words could translate into action?”

  • Vijayendra wrote:
    December 11th, 2006 at 9.02 am

    IMHO, Sidhu changed the face of boring commentry (even if it was for a brief time). He really did. But all those one-liners (mostly corny) started to irritate people soon.

    Nontheless, even if people try and get their own version of one-liners, its mighty hard. For that, i must respect Sidhu, and he deserves it too :)

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