The Supreme Court sought a response from Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on a plea, filed by the kin of the deceased, that he should be punished for an offence of more serious category than causing hurt, therefore leading to enhancement of punishment.

Sidhu has urged the apex court not to punish him with a jail term in a 1988 road rage case in which he was let off with a meagre fine of Rs 1,000.