Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is the tourism minister in the Amarinder Singh government in Punjab, had allegedly hit a 65-year-old man on the head during an argument over the parking of a car in December 1988. Singh later died in a hospital. Sidhu was acquitted of the murder charges by a trial court in September 1999. However, the Punjab high court reversed the verdict and held Sidhu and his co-accused Rupinder Singh Sandhu guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in December 2006. It sentenced them to three years in jail and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh each. Both Sidhu and Sandhu filed an appeal in the Supreme Court, which stayed their conviction in 2007, paving the way for Sidhu to contest the by-poll for Amritsar Lok Sabha seat. Sandhu was also was acquitted by the Supreme Court.