Chandigarh: Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, convicted in a case of culpable homicide, today  (Jan 11, 2007) surrendered before a local court which sent him to judicial custody in Patiala.

Siddhu, a former BJP MP who has challenged his conviction in the Supreme Court, surrendered before the Chief Judicial Magistrate here this afternoon. The case will come before the apex court tomorrow.

Sidhu and his friend Rupinder Singh Sandhu were directed to be taken to the Central Jail in Patiala by CJM Y S Rathore.

The duo earlier appeared before a Division Bench of the High Court to surrender in line with a Supreme Court order. The High Court directed them surrender before the CJM.

The two were convicted in a case of road rage which led to the death of one Gurnam Singh in Patiala in 1988.