Experience
is the comb that life gives you when you are bald; Age has been the perfect
fire extinguisher for flaming youth.;
Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.; A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a
reef; The ball went so high that it
could brought an airhostess down with it;
Its very difficult to kill a man who is hell bent upon committing
suicide!"; No one reads a book to reach the middle - its the end that
matters ****
Words
from the Cricketer who made his debut in Ahmedabad in 1983 – remember seeing
him play at Chepauk against Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding, survive for
sometime – dubbed as a ‘strokeless wonder’ returned with greater resolve at the
same ground in Reliance WC hitting Australian attack for 5 sixers that had
Mcdermoot, Bruce Reid and Simon O Donnel.
After retiring, his style of speaking, sidhuisms and colour of turban
were to be watched out !
Every
played Road Rash on Computers ? the motorcycle-racing
video game series by Electronic Arts has players participating in violent,
illegal street races. The game's title
is based on the slang term for the severe friction burns that can occur in a
motorcycle fall where skin comes into contact with the ground at high speed. The game takes place in California, on
progressively longer two-lane roads. The two-player mode only allows one person
to play at a time. There are 14 other opponents in a race. It is violent, where apart from racing,
players kick, push and crash to get others out of the way.
One could easily notice this – upon reaching Chennai Central, in
hot and humid weather, things could appear drastically changed for the visitor
– many on road seemingly are overcharged and in a mood to fight, the autowallah
or the Transport corporation exchanges expletives – not many are ready to give
room to the other roaduser and one could even see people fighting on the road
afrter violating the traffic rules too. Road rage is aggressive or angry behaviuor exhibited by a driver
of a road vehicle, which includes rude gestures, verbal insults, physical
threats or dangerous driving methods targeted toward another driver or a
pedestrian in an effort to intimidate or release frustration. Road rage can
lead to altercations, assaults and collisions that result in serious physical
injuries or even death. If
one were to caught in a volatile situation in a traffic jam – try to exchange a
smile, pleasantry, try to wriggle out cool, there is nothing one loses by being
soft and smooth – let others who have so many urgent works win the situation,
let us be calm and a few minutes lost are better lost, if we are to retain our
mental peace.
Navjot
Singh was no stranger to controversies. Sidhu
walked out of India's 1996 tour of England citing differences with captain
Mohammad Azharuddin. Following this, he was banished from the team for ten
Tests by the BCCI eventually making a return in the 1996–97 tour of West
Indies. In the second Test at Queen's Park Oval, he scored a double century.
The 201, his highest score in Tests lasted 11 hours. Known for his tendency to
attack spinners, he cracked eight sixes in 124 against Sri Lanka in 1993–94,
and four fifties in five innings against the Australians in 1997–98, deliberately
singling out Shane Warne !
After
19 years of cricketing career and few
more as commentator, Sidhu joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2004 and
contested the general election from Amritsar. He won the election and held the
seat till 2014 winning also the next election. He was nominated to the Rajya
Sabha in 2016 from Punjab before he resigned from the position the same year
and quitting the party. In 2017, he joined the Indian National Congress and was
elected to the Punjab Legislative Assembly from Amritsar East.
The Supreme Court today set aside a lower court's order and acquitted
Punjab Congress minister Navjot Singh Sidhu of culpable homicide not amounting
to murder in the 1988 Patiala road rage case. However, the bench of Justices J
Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul found him guilty of causing simple injury
and imposed a fine without any jail term. The cricketer-turned-politician has
been convicted under Section 323 of Indian Penal Code which says whosoever
voluntarily causes hurt, shall be punished with imprisonment of either
description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may
extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.The court also acquitted Sidhu's
aide Rupinder Singh Sandhu in the case.
Earlier
in April, the Congress government in Punjab has asked the Supreme Court to
uphold Sidhu's conviction in the decades-old case. The apex court had granted
bail to the cricketer-turned-politician after he was sentenced to three years
in prison by the Punjab and Haryana high court. The victim's family has
appealed to the SC to enhance the three year jail time given by the lower
court.
The
cause of action arose way back in Dec 1988, when Sidhu allegedly hit
65-year-old Gurnam Singh after getting into an altercation with him in Patiala.
Singh was rushed to a hospital, where he was declared dead.The division bench
comprising Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Baldev Singh also convicted
accomplice Rupinder Singh Sandhu but suspended their sentences (three years
imprisonment), during the pendency of their appeals in the Supreme Court. In
2007, the Supreme Court suspended Sidhu's conviction to enable him to contest
elections.
So,
it is the end of the road for the victim as also Sidhu – on different planes
!
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
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