Jail sentence for road rage death cricketer

A court today sentenced former Indian cricket player turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to three years in prison for killing a man during a scuffle triggered by a car parking argument in 1988, news reports said.

However, the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh suspended the sentence, giving Sidhu until January 31 to appeal to the Supreme Court, the Press Trust of India news agency said.