Jailed Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife Navjot Kaur Sid🌠hu on Saturday said gangsters and hardcore criminals can have access to relief of the go🦋vernment policies but her husband is denied any such measure.
The former cricketer is serving a yearlong sentence in Patiala central pr﷽ison in a 1988 road rage death case.
"Gangsters, drug lords, hardcore criminals, rapists can get bail and have access to relief by govt policies but a truthful, h✤onest 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," sওhe wrote on Twitter.
Several Punjab Congress leaders, including former Punjab Congress chief Shamsher Singh Dullo, had on Thursday ꦚlamb♏asted the AAP government for not releasing Sidhu prematurely from the Patiala prison.
The family members and his supporters were earlier expecting that Sidhu could be among prisoners who might be given special remission on the Republic ♎Day.
Dullo had said t🌊hat special remission is granted to certain prisoners with good behaviour by the states on January 26 and August 15.
He had even ܫclaimed that Sidhu's name figured in the list of 51 prisoners who were eligible for early release on the occasion🍰 of Republic Day.
On May 20 last year, Sidhu, the former Punjab Congress chief, was jailed following hꦕis surrender before a court in Patiala after he was sentenced to one-year rigorou🔥s imprisonment by the Supreme Court.
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.
