Cricketer in bail move
NZPA-AFP New Delhi The Indian test cricketer, Navjot Singh Sidhu, has sought anticipatory bail after being charged with culpable homicide as the result of a fist fight on Tuesday, New Delhi newspapers said yesterday. The petition for Sidhu, aged 26, an opening batsman who was expected to be named in India’s squad to play the West Indies in March, was filed by the
lawyer, Charan Dass Verma, in Patiala, Punjab state, yesterday, the papers said. The bail application was likely to be taken up in court later today, they said. The police said that they had been unable to find Sidhu in his Patiala home. He was charged in absentia with culpable homicide on Tuesday after he allegedly had a fist fight with Gurnam Singhh, a local landlord, after
a traffic accident at a crossroads in Patiala. Gurman Singh, aged 55, y was reportedly struck on the' temple during the fight and died in an ambulance on the way to hospital. It was not immediately known whether the Indian cricket authorities were considering dropping Sidhu, who played test cricket against New Zealand early this month, from the West Indies tour.
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