Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana High Court will yesterday (Dec 5, 2006) hear arguments from the prosecution and the defence on the quantum of sentence to be given to former BJP MP Navjot Sidhu and his friend whose acquittal by a lower court in a road rage death case was set aside by it last week.

A Division Bench comprising Justices Mehtab Singh Gill and Baldev Singh had on December one set aside the order of Patiala sessions judge and convicted Sidhu and his friend for causing the death of a Patiala resident, Gurnam Singh, following a scuffle after a road accident 18 years ago.

The High Court had allowed the appeal of the Punjab government and the complainant against the acquittal of Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu by the lower court in September 1999 and held them guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The bench had fixed December 6 as the date for arguments on the quantum of sentence. Sidhu had resigned as Amritsar MP after the High Court verdict.