“The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu in a case of road rage death in which he was sentenced to three-years imprisonment.

A bench headed by Justice G P Mathur directed the former Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25,000 and a surety of like amount before the chief judicial magistrate, Patiala.

The Bench also issued a notice to the Punjab government on Sidhu’s plea seeking suspension of the conviction and sentence so that he could contest the bypolls to the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency, which he vacated following his conviction by the Punjab and High Court on December one last year.

The court also admitted his appeal against the conviction and sentence and fixed January 17 to hear his plea seeking stay of the conviction.”

Major reprieve for Siddhu ..suspension of sentence to contest bypolls to Lok Sabha.Get ready for a deluge of Siddhu-isms on his greatness.