Indian driver gets jailed in Canada

Indian driver gets jailed in Canada

Melfort (Canada): An Indian driver whose truck was involved in a crash that killed 16 people on an ice hockey team bus has been sentenced to eight years in prison, according to media reports. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was sentenced on Friday by Saskatchewan Province Judge Inez Cardinal to eight years for each of those killed and five years for each of the 13 injured but she ordered that the prison terms run concurrently so he will face a maximum of only eight years.

The Saskatoon Star Phoenix reported that the court was told that he missed four highway signs before the stop sign that he drove through into an intersection hitting the bus that was carrying the Humboldt Broncos ice hockey team. “It is baffling and incomprehensible that a professional driver could miss so many markers over such a long distance,” the newspaper quoted Cardinal as saying. She said that because Sidhu is a permanent resident, and not a Canadian citizen, he will be deported after serving his sentence, according to the newspaper. (IANS)

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